When at naptime children sleep
the discontented dad –
a malcontent –
plots strategies and
surges to overtake
the insurgency of convention;
the twin whores
of personal peace
and prosperity.
These unveiled whores
are not won through
hearts and minds
but armed warfare,
unilateral initiatives
and bullets to the head.
Decapitation on Lou Dobbs.
Bodies drug through the street.
This is no place for doves
yet sleeping in their beds.
When they awake
their dad with bloodied hands
strokes and smears
his child’s cheek.
Marks war-paint
on a generation
for hatchet fights
and IED’s.
These whores that
will not die.