Escalation (Pictures at an Exhibition 1)
"La violence au Mexique" Exhibition, Paris 2012 |
What is it?
it’s a manner of not wanting to see
what?
a body just found
dead under a blanket, and then
there was that odd catsup advertissement on a corner
like blood splashed on the white wall comely dropping its
tomato sauce until the art gallery turned red
and the seated man on the red wall, a depicted
man,
his arms tightly tied bursted
out screaming
or would have screamed
but for a brown scotch tape that made the turn of his
head
muffled man
dying man, probably guilty
who can tell?
actually the rival gang would
wanted to learn it through
pain!
a professionally questioning of open wounds until
that odd catsup advertisement like blood splashed on
the white gallery wall
dropped its tomato sauce upon a hamburger like
human meat
and the man, the depicted man bursted
out screaming for
(death!)
a muffled scream with brown scotch tape
what is it?
it’s a picture of a dead
body just found under a blanket, but
what if at this single minute another man
a dying man and probably guilty
screams for
death
upon his hamburger like
human meat
waiting
(while the pain has no name)
for the wall to turn red
and what if
at that single moment another man
also a third dying man and probably also guilty
(while the pain has no name)
screams his muffled taped up scream
for a final bullet
for the walls to turn red
and for the mirroring sequence of seated men
(their arms tightly tied behind)
to rest?