August

August

I ate peyote in the cornfield watched the sun explode gore crow in the owl’s talon pressed red the rabbit morning moved through gold pushed into its thick meniscus corn grew in blood fields pig blood mule blood wives’ blood children’s blood the blood of Olympus the blood of Jesus on my last day of chemotherapy I rang the brass bell wandered off to die having eaten all the corn having swallowed cup after cup of American gold sugar a Dekalb ministry hallelujah knocking in blood heaving in blood my head a sectioned orange my head shucked open into August my head an exploded rind the end of everything my 4H rabbit groomed to rushing gold perfection in the corn rabbit swam through waves a slick beast I left the program sank into gold mash bright rivers of poison greengold pig food greengold cow food greengold horse food greengold dog food I stroked the rabbit’s ears licked her terrible pink eye King Monsanto America’s disease machine eating rational rows of gold corn grown gold on spears gold cereal gold gum gold butter gold grits gold American food gold pellets stuck in our meaty American teeth corn as America’s battery corn as God I am the rabbit faced girl orange brain sectioned in rows gold and perfect