Thanks to the Academy

--I can deconstruct a pin drop

ping – from fifty paces. All the little

angels scattered on the floor. Before my fascist boot

makes dust of darlings’ wings. And coolly justify it,

with cute reference to Schopenhauer, as a kind of mastery of

compassion. Done in the spirit of a mercy massacre perhaps,

but minding Nietzsche’s call to act on it as well. Well fancy.

How many big ideas can you fit on the head of that pin, drop

ping - out of conversation, and into the blood of your enemy.

8 million? 6 million? Easy as Auschwitz - I’d say. No fear

grips you like my fear of philosophy --

Thanks to the Academy.