Bullet Points (From Mars)
Bullet Points (From Mars)
Bullet hole eyes
blanks espied.
Bullet rip mouth
lips unhoused.
Bullets gutting
stinks rutting.
Bullets split
limbs spilt.
Belly swells
bullet’s well.
Cratered head
the body’s own
red planet.
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For my own prompt on With Real Toads to write of something real, with artifice, if possible influenced by Picasso. In this case, very influenced by Picasso’s WWII sculptures seen at the ongoing MOMA show.
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ManicDDaily 
January 17, 2016 at 10:59 pm
Disturbing…as thoughts/memories of war and whizzing bullets must be
January 18, 2016 at 5:16 am
This is so well done… I feel the match of words with those bullets are like soldiers…
January 18, 2016 at 7:54 am
Sinister words for what almost seems a child’s pretend creature–yet they do follow that horrible violent trajectory that war enforces in the mind. Perhaps war *is* a child’s pretend creature, the atavistic and vengeful, paranoid child in a tantrum rage, where anger rules every cell. Anyway, this piece makes the mind go several ways–chilling, to say the least.
January 18, 2016 at 8:31 am
It’s almost like your words are marching in formation! Very good!
January 18, 2016 at 11:58 am
This makes a strong statement.
January 18, 2016 at 3:13 pm
Artifice here, k? It sounds like a typical Saturday Houston (Texas) night. Probably will be more than a few of these now that the cowboys can ‘bring there guns to town’ here now.
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January 18, 2016 at 9:04 pm
Thanks for sharing these along with your photos from the Picasso show (would love to have seen that). Your poem accompanies these images well. Great prompt too–wish I could have found time to write to it.
January 18, 2016 at 9:37 pm
Thanks so much, Mark. The show is up till Feb 7 (not saying you could get to NY, but just in case.) The NY Times has a couple of good reviews with a far wider selection of pics–beautiful cardboard and other pieces, more cubist– guitars etc. (You know, I am not really against Florida at all–just had a hard time at Marriott and conference.) k.
January 19, 2016 at 11:54 am
I’ll check out those reviews. I adore Picasso and your photos are very good.
I avoid Orlando and shudder at anything Disney related.
January 19, 2016 at 7:37 am
this piece syncs well with your chosen image; its a very disturbing write
much love…
January 19, 2016 at 12:18 pm
Intense, sobering, a great write.
January 19, 2016 at 12:35 pm
I like the bluntness of this. The rhythm really adds to the piece.
January 21, 2016 at 5:56 pm
I like the tone, and the descriptions that say so much while keeping even more. Damage has been done to this face, and although this is known, the realness of the hurt can’t be completely grasped…
February 2, 2016 at 2:10 pm
The image is childlike – but disturbing. So are the words.