Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Lt. John Pike

I know that his boots were black and heavy as they shined like Italian history.

I know that for three years his salary as a police officer for a university

has been slightly more than a hundred thousand dollars a year

and that on the same day Puerto Rico was discovered (for the last time)

he leisurely sprayed a chemical agent into the faces and lungs of students

sitting passively on their own campus; their heads bowed, their arms linked.

I know that his apartment complex has a swimming pool (aquamarine)

and a tennis court (night-dark green, white lined) and that he lives in no. 616.

I know that when he is not wearing riot armor he manages the Records Unit,


but I will not know the sort of man he is unless he does not put a bullet in his head.

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