[[ Weapons -- bullets, bombs, missiles -- and the technology of violence, the politics and philosophy of violence, the blinking out of life. And there was the famous (?) experiment in which someone claimed to weigh the human soul and came up with 21 grams. ]]
how fast they move
these pieces of metal
how hard and sharp
they make themselves known
the projection of power
is airtight, cylindrical,
streamlined and modular
how small they seem
these pieces of certainty
how they disintegrate
all understanding
the end of it all
has just crossed the border
and gone underground
how fast they die
the cells of memory
how the mind blinks out
second by second
the weight of the soul
is the difference between
the body before and after
how small we seem
with no more certainty
how we disintegrate
past understanding
the end of it all
has just crossed the border
and gone underground
the weight of the soul
is the difference between
the body before and after
we die surrounded,
surrounding, before and after,
feel the weight of the soul
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