#title Beast #3
#subtitle A Poem for John Sinclair
#author anon.
#SORTauthors anon.;
#date 1969
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/88-september-18-october-1-1969/beast-3]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2019-07-09
#notes Fifth Estate #88, September 18-October 1, 1969


**** BEAST # 3

A POEM FOR JOHN SINCLAIR

<quote>
we are lonely
</quote>

<quote>
we will attack you w/ our smallest uttered parts
</quote>

<quote>
we will move w/ the mask of darkness w/ simple weapons
</quote>

<quote>
& slit the bellies of yr women
</quote>

<quote>
we will replace each foetus w/ a phoneme of our loneliness
</quote>

<quote>
a barely uttered beast sound that will take root
</quote>

<quote>
and grow until yr women’s bellies explode w/ bizarre totems
</quote>

<quote>
that spring forward to devour you
</quote>

<quote>
.
</quote>

<quote>
we are desperate
</quote>

<quote>
we will attack you w/ our darkness
</quote>

<quote>
night fills the vast cavity
</quote>

<quote>
behind yr eyes
</quote>

<quote>
we are
</quote>

<quote>
there behind yr eyes
</quote>

<quote>
we are there
</quote>

<quote>
ARMED
</quote>

<quote>
w/ the huge rats
</quote>

<quote>
that inhabit our
</quote>

<quote>
neighborhoods
</quote>

<quote>
ARMED
</quote>

<quote>
w/ cracked bricks
</quote>

<quote>
from our
</quote>

<quote>
rotting tenements
</quote>

<quote>
ARMED
</quote>

<quote>
w/ grenades
</quote>

<quote>
THIS IS YR WARNING
</quote>

<quote>
THIS IS THE INSTANT OF ABRASION
</quote>

<quote>
right now the jagged textures of our weapons
</quote>

<quote>
caress the sleek walls of yr inner skin
</quote>

<quote>
we are there
</quote>

<quote>
in the vast cavity behind yr eyes
</quote>

<quote>
we are the desperate darkness
</quote>

<quote>
WE WILL BLOW YOU TO PIECES FROM THE INSIDES MOTHERFUCKER
</quote>

<quote>
yr eyes &retinas &irises &brains &ligaments &stringy tendons
</quote>

<quote>
will splatter on the streets in huge bloody masses
</quote>

<quote>
they will stand witness to the celebration of our dark holy
</quote>

<quote>
(universe)
</quote>

<quote>
.
</quote>

<quote>
we are a lonely desperate conspiracy
</quote>

<quote>
we are united
</quote>

<quote>
we shall have our beastly way
</quote>

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