‘The Efformation’ By Humphrey King

[efformation: the act of giving shape or form]

I.

the departed eagle sits

shaping contemporary narrative
(out of nothing but air)

POLITICAL REALITY.
IS TRANSFORMED

SMASHES.
LARGE
PUSSY.

historical pain.
of humanness.

something I
conceptualize
if I could stop you.

Finding
our
flippers.

we shouldn’t care.
asking: is it
in our language.
articulated.

bits and shifts;
entirely, neither

cracking a joke
in the living room

it doesn’t help.

II.

it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care
it doesn’t help
we shouldn’t care

Delia by Humphrey King