Premonition of Civil War

(of the painting “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans” by Salvador Dali)

mighty Colossus
of flesh and brawn
and tit

of bone

the desert sky
does not pity you

unswallowable eyesore
unconscious meat

add to this mess
a smattering of boiled beans
or any other mealy
melancholic
vegetable

closing one’s eyes
and holding one’s nose
is futile when the grip tightens
into a fist around
the throat

bodies and bodies
will fall
upon Mediterranean dust
painting the sand
as an appalling picture of Tartarus
barren land becomes barathrum

the unmoving desert sky
will show no remorse