Howie Good

Maggots

Men at the highest levels of government
whose diseased brains breed maggots
eagerly plot the next round of war. History knows
of things we refuse to acknowledge,
the gratuitous collapse of civilizations,
the corpses of children buried under the rubble.
Any hill town or industrial city can be
rechristened with bombs.

Howie Good is a widely published but little-known poet whose new poetry collection is True Crime from Berlin-based Sacred Parasite Press.