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?