Lifeless and
limp..
the warm
blood
of a bloated
body
hangs heavy
in our hands
Animal
sacrifice
to be
plucked
for a feast
Survival
mechanism
necessary to
the tongue..
the gods
will understand
numb to the
grave
numb to the
bone
numb in the
stomach
numb is the
cycle of carnage
-by Scott Thomas Outlar
Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com
where links to his published poetry and fiction can be found. His chapbook
"Songs of A Dissident" is forthcoming in early 2016 through
Transcendent Zero Press, and his words have appeared recently in venues such as
Words Surfacing, Yellow Chair Review, Section 8 Magazine, Angry Manifesto, and
Literary Orphans.
Painting Courtesy: Jaya Suberg
Jaya Suberg was born in 1956 in Hagen, Germany. In 1980 she
came to the “walled-in” city of Berlin and immediately felt at a completely different universe. Initially she worked the photographs and other
materials into a collage diary, then she
started combining her photography with painting, drawing, digital collage and
mixed media.
