A Damaged Thinker #36
By Darren C. Demaree

Lift the ten
political
hunters

to the helmet
of my blown
base, ask them

about thought
& thought
scattered.

Ask them why
I fear only
revolutions

without enough
gut to swallow
me whole.

If I am to be
sacrificed again
I don’t want

a single piece
of my bronze
choked upon.