ELEGY FOR TROY DAVISby Michael Mlekoday I am in a place where execution can only destroy your physical form. —Troy Davis Only. Only the snakebite of syringe. Only the preferred method of execution used by Vietnam, Nazi Germany, and Georgia. Only, yes, you are only as flammable as a photograph, now. Only as blood-pumping as black ink. You are only dementia-dream, now. Sleep like a library and we will gun down the men standing outside with torches. One of us: one of them. One of us: one of them. One day your name will mean mountaintop. One day we will look back like the snake devouring itself and your name will be the fang and the garden and the guts. |