The Crystalline Song Of The Rapist

The Crystalline Song of The Rapist

When the party is over

and it's over now

when the fire stops flickering

when there's only a slice

of dry cheesecake moon

to put on the plate

of the last man leaving

I wait for the silence

but it never comes.

There's always a growling

a wheeze-buzzing rattle:

the crystalline song

of shatter on the exhale.

 Everything's off. The train sound--

it's not a tornado,

not even a train.

It's  a treachery 

more intimate

more sudden
 too close

a noise in the war

scuttering from light,

the ardor of the roach whose tactic
of vitality brings ruin to the walls.

 It's a bait and switch art,
 today trumping tomorrow;

this pump-action suck

for the very last drop,

each recoil injecting

ten million
gallons of waste

and it isn't a dream

coming careless and hard

as the beautiful

poisoned  body beneath me

shudders and flops

arches and groans, trying to shake off 

what gives her
nothing
but secrets and rape.

~September 2014

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My views on fracking, 
assisted by grapeling's word list, 
drawn from Sun Tzu's The Art of War

Oklahoma, United States has had: (M1.5 or greater)

• 7 earthquakes today
• 33 earthquakes in the past 7 days
• 102 earthquakes in the past month
• 1,044 earthquakes in the past year

The largest earthquake in Oklahoma, United States:

• today: 3.5 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States
• this week: 4.0 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, United States
• this month: 4.2 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, United States
• this year: 4.5 in Edmond, Oklahoma, United States
  
  
  9/17/2004
  per earthquaketrack.com 

Image: Existing injection wells in Oklahoma as of 2014
pump-jack near Kingfisher, OK, both via npr.org
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