This is really crass. I think if you're going to try to discuss something as brutal and oppressive as empire within your poem, you have a creative-artistic obligation to do so responsibly. I don't think this poem is responsible. I think it's violently irresponsible. It's also not very good.
This is the kind of poetry that creates a space, a dimensionless space where art meets language and flips it off to the point of putting it in its place, diffusing its oppressively normative control over thought and objectivity, a space where freedom allows a window to open into being, that ineffable substance out of which everything and everyone arises and eventually dissolves back into, which is also known as love.
This is really crass. I think if you're going to try to discuss something as brutal and oppressive as empire within your poem, you have a creative-artistic obligation to do so responsibly. I don't think this poem is responsible. I think it's violently irresponsible. It's also not very good.
This is the kind of poetry that creates a space, a dimensionless space where art meets language and flips it off to the point of putting it in its place, diffusing its oppressively normative control over thought and objectivity, a space where freedom allows a window to open into being, that ineffable substance out of which everything and everyone arises and eventually dissolves back into, which is also known as love.
Francis de Lima, you take my breath away, I've told you once and will keep saying--Oh, how the world needs your poetry!