Because a mad elephant can only destroy your body,


1.

War is a fox that will not stop living,
and the old ladies kept him.

Shrove his sportsman's tail,
brushed out fully as the dustjacket,

as the brightly lapeled,
and the women darned for him.


2.

I have done
a little walking. With a clear

mind, the landstrikes
cannot touch me.

Safely tucked into a binary
machine.


3.

From the warfields,
pocketing the nursing duties,

the heads of men.
My stadium full of wounded generals.

We motor out to greet
this more precious flesh.