Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

A Cup of Tea

Blood spittle on concrete
Coughing the thought,
The face, the moment's terror.

Pigs lining up in cages
Spewing wombs
Combing white bristles

Bees, fumbling in a yellow pods
Are marching
Priming the bombs

Searching for death
Burning shadows
Walled sarcophagus

And all I want
Is a cup of tea.