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Polichinelle

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You have taken my bones, yet charge me with the crime—then laugh at me because I walk funny; failing to mention the extraordinary willpower I exercise in order to walk without bones—

Then, you want me to forgive you, after these biological predeterminates prey on your conscience, for your psychological crimes—my response—

BURN IN HELL—

Crippled, undaunted to the bitter end, willful, prodigious—I will become a bird—a genetic bird—

You are an aspic—

There are absolutes of which your kind always fails to understand—there are circumstances that are irredeemable for the victims of those circumstances and the crimes of the perpetrators can only be remonstrated through the shedding of

Their blood—

Your blood—

There has never been a judge who wasn’t guilty of judging—there never was a teacher who didn’t sacrifice her students—

There is no world without oppression and only the crippled possesses any notion of truth at all—

But admittedly there is Progress of Events—one day the tortured will become large winged birds, they will seek their prey—

Illimitable justice at the End of Everything—

The wounded are about to take flight.

  • Saeed Ur Rehman has a PhD in postcolonial literary studies from the Australian National University and has held a postdoctoral fellowship at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. He is the founding editor of KRNT. He is also the editor of Narrating Pakistan: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing. His work has appeared in Mississippi Review Online, Cultural Dynamics, Kunapipi, The Historian, The Foreigner, Herald, and the Journal of Research in Humanities. His sources of inspiration are Gide, Georges Bataille, and Jean Genet, among others.

  • Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Louis Bourgeois is primarily a poet who has also published translations, fiction, memoirs and interviews in more than two hundred magazines and journals in North America, Europe and Asia. He holds a BA in English from Louisiana State University and was the first graduate of the University of Mississippi's MFA program in Creative Writing. He is the Executive Director of VOX Press as well as the Program Director for the Mississippi Prison Writes Initiative.