Sex and Murder Magazine

By David McLean

Kemper did bad things,
apparently, silencing
borderline with a tasty
cream pie,

a shot of timeless
life, murdering maternity,
tactfully tacit memory
and a chain of the sexual

inevitable, plastic
and bruised mattresses,
words and garbage disposal,
dead flesh, mortal sex,

and a claw hammer to hold,
because in that matrix
the meretricious monster
grows, so children grow older,

home alone, mothers
recycled, outgrown;
nothing and strong hands,
it's all we've ever known -

it's all we need to know