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letra de exactitude and science - kiran leonard

last night i went to a lecture
by two human rights lawyers
venerated at distance
everybody was cloaked, knowingly
in bearing what they knew
nothing and reflecting
on that map of great distinction
that overtook the countries it described
rendering homes as ink unto a page
in fiction and in leverage

they k!lled civilian policemen
as they stood outside
at a ceremonial occasion
as covert figures in the air
struck hospitals and elementary schools
and made tombs in bedrooms
we were sat still but lost our moorings
in images we could not understand
wincing through fog and all stumbling blind
“nothing to be done”

and in the death of the west
before a mother shot to death
the throat of a piano
unknowingly stifles and empties

are we so impossibly unable, limited and limbless
like a v-ssal to my eyes
a hastening silt envelops earth and sky
and redacts even the maps
as history in idle orbit
strengthens it with centuries of tide
no head to cut off, or negotiate with, or bribe
is response all theory

are we so impossibly unable
i see it now
are words as ink not without equal
i feel it now
what need has poetry
in capturing a lengthening shroud
when deeds and oratory
must struggle with apertures shrinking and proud
as minor victories must we
measure all droll condemnation of power
with hopeless pedantry and brief
comforts our ill-strations endow us
when superior fantasies cast
fictions as infallible science
when ulterior lyricists paint honesty
as violence

- kiran leonard

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