TLG: Homo Homini Lupus - by Bedros Afeyan - 05/17/2020

Homo Homini Lupus

Man is wolf, when sheep read

Prepared texts on teleprompters

Prepare meals for TV consumption

While wolves howl at the wind of time

The chimes of crime

The hives of beards and knives

Dancing to West Side Story remakes

In broad daylight.

Man is wolf in the dark hours of the soul

Hidden promise of a bullet launched in an eye socket

For Dali to melt into the framework of trains run on time

For the winter solstice, dancing with hoofs

Licking the blood of lies

The cream of charred lungs

The smoky kiss of internal organs

Boiling in the alphabet of the sun.

Man is wolf since no man has ever known

A minute of peace since the battle cry of uncivil society

Had its first cotillion that led to the forceful subjugation

Of buxom prisoners in red

Shown a shiny cross in gold

And asked to spend their nights with ghosts.

Man is wolf and wolf is man.

No dog need mourn the switch up

Or annotate the scorn.

Bedros Afeyan

1-30-2020

Pleasanton, CA

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Dr. Bedros Afeyan is a theoretical physicist who works and lives in the Bay area with his wife, Marine.
He writes in Armenian and in English and also paints and sculpts.
He is the current editor of The Literary Groong at https://groong.org/tlg/