Chorus of Excisions

Cut the drill, viscous leak.
Cut salt from earth, lead from water,
drones from firmament.
[Insert this kiss, our natural habitat]
Cut asbestos from imploding
buildings, ban it from the wind.
Delete half-lives / Hazmat suits / atomic tourism.
Erase phosphorous clouds,
cut nerve agents.
Cut duct tape & anaphora of ammo
from gooseflesh.
[Insert your touch, soft impact]
Snip the roses, lacquered in Mavrik™
pesticide blitz.
[Insert rush of pearled seed]
Cut stuff with strychnine & speed.
Cut short the cutting speech.
Undercut bunk facts / crass theatrics.
Excise us, bodies up for gropes,
strapped in the pink,
dodging the grabs.
Strike down that crooked flag,
deep slur on the wind.
Shred caution tape to ribbons.
Cut cluster munitions & billowing
green chlorine gas.
[Insert your Lazarus comeback]
Cut to the chase & chastened,
bloodhound / Technicolor face.
Cut scene to celluloid reams
on the cutting room floor.
[Insert longing, my lifelong occupation]
Censor the shot from Time
of a charred face
in an armored truck.
Split bitter pill, crush to smithereens.
Delete barricades for the fleeing,
cut no holes in their hulls.
[Insert refuge, sanctuary in your scent]
[Insert flesh memory]
Extract bit rot, data decay.
Cut coal debris & PCBs from waterways—
rewind glacial rift.
Shred empire / strike gilded set
with my father’s hammer.