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MECHANICAL THEATER OF CRIME

MY TEXTS

They are convicted for
Executed because of
Executed in the name of
Shot dead

THE GREAT MACHINE OF DEATH
A MOBILE OF CONTINUOUS EXECUTION
lethally synchronous
perfect
ready to serve.

The boundaries between Life and Death
are drawn here
by a line of aimed shotguns
– a precise instrument of murder.

Opposite to it, LIVING SHIELDS
are spaced in a row
to complete this
CRUEL SHOOTING RANGE OF THE LAW,
whoever is hiding behind it:
the Angel of Justice
or the Demon of Doom.

The Legally Valid Festival of Judgment
is being prepared
to be held under the auspices
of DEATH
which is sanctioned
majestic
expected.

Its imminent arrival
is announced by blows of commands
shouted by the commander
– the priest of this bloody sacrifice.

The MACHINE OF JUDGMENT goes forth

The SQUADRON OF ONE SALVO
Is formed up in a row:
the pose of readiness duplicates
the precision of the target measures.

The Finger of Justice
now wrapped around the trigger.

Just a moment of anticipation
that tightens the silence
and…

A salvo!

only a fraction of a second earlier
the Triumph of Death is announced…
obvious to all
and inevitable.

Here is the shortest flight
From the altitude of height.

The phases of the fall
like successive
FRAMES OF DEATH
– a record of rapid agony.

Its final act
inert body mass
ends up smashing on the ground
and everything lasts
just a nod of the hand.

The result:
a small open birthmark
broiling with escaping life
seeping into the pores of the ground.

It is consummated!

All that’s left
is a pile of naked bodies
– a troublesome by-product
of this LIFE EXTERMINATION FACILITY
of the Utmost Incarnation of Madness
into a MECHANICAL THEATER OF CRIME.

Thus continues the cruelest
of human performances
which, as if by permission
of God and Satan, themselves
was never meant to end

…and only I don’t really know
who is more worthy of despair:
those freed by death
or us – condemned to live here.

Dariusz Gorczyca
June 1994
Cracow

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