Chainsaw
by Jim Hanson / March 16th, 2025
Blood drips on
the floor
falling from the
wounds of the
body politic
slashed by
the chainsaw of
a monk gone mad
by AI mind virus.
Some kneel down
to wipe the floor
clean with
cotton dressing
to absorb
the suffering.
Others stay up
to mend
the wounds
with stitches
of long words
about peace
while sitting.
But the blood keeps
dripping
as the saw keeps
ripping,
all so busy
wiping and mending
talking and sitting
the blood never ending.
Jim Hanson is a sociologist and retired Senior Researcher at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. His poetry collections include
Endless Journey: Poems in Search of Meaning published in 2022 by Spartan Press,
Perspectives: Educational Poems on the Humanities and Sciences published in 2023 by Wipf and Stock, and
Ruminations: Poems on Living and Dying published in 2023 by Cyberwit Press. A chapbook titled
Anthropic Musings was published in 2019, and single poems have appeared in some thirty websites and printings.
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This article was posted on Sunday, March 16th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.