Dan Schapiro
“Desirability Is Disposability.”
—Vqueeram Aditya Sahai
“The apocalypse is not when the world ends; it’s when one
single person is killed. The entire universe becomes
deformed when one single person is tortured.”
—Raúl Zurita (trans. Daniel Borzutzky)
The verdict seemed unanimous
that they be re membered
as they lived, lined
Up for valuation grief relegated to pleasure
Able quanta arranged in a … classical
GRID… a back-formation from the 13th
century — gridiron — a device
on which victims were ‘secured’
before tortured & burned
…………………………….by fire
It’s all the same loss
even children are a technology
babbling
in service of water
….with out realizing my hands turn into a
……………………………………cup
Dan Schapiro is a disabled poet living with HIV in New York. HOLEPLAY, his first book, writes through and about images and illness. He is @gayforcommunism.
