This man

This man that’s doomed to life in a cell

was just 13

when he killed.

Is that fair?

I don’t know,

but there’ve been men

who killed in bulk

whom History lauds.

There are those who are killed by the State

for killing others,

and those who are killed by the State

for being Jews,

but there’s no justice.

You, too, perpetrate.

You break others

in ways unique to you,

and, sure, they break you too,

but there’s no justice.

We are brutes.

We slay the flies

that torture lions

that torture prey,

for nature, too, is barbarous,

and nature is us,

and we are nature,

and the Word is with God,

and the Word is God,

but there’s no justice

anywhere.