In honor of Godzilla's 59th birthday today, here is a poem from my forthcoming book DEMONSTRA, and a trailer to celebrate the occasion in style. DEMONSTRA also includes rarely seen selections from my chapbook The Kaiju and I, which appeared in G-Fan Magazine #75, the international magazine of Godzilla fans.
Destroy All Monsters!
Destroy All Monsters!
"Monsters are tragic beings; they are born too tall, too strong, too heavy, they are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy"
—Ishiro Honda
When the orders
came, we were not
(could not)
(dared not be)
Surprised:
Humanity must be
preserved
At all costs,
Despite a
decidedly
Checkered record
Since the biased
jottings of Herodotus.
That is the old
line,
Safe to stand by
A leaf of litmus
on which to write
Our strategies
like old Sun Tzu.
Monstrosity and
terror have no place
In our crumbling
streets filled with
Graffiti and
youth
Who are the heirs
to our creations.
Whether you are a
lizard with a
Skyscraper
between your toes
Or some smaller
fiend
In whom we fear
to find
Too close a
mirror,
There just isn’t
enough space in this vast world
For both our
dreams.
If only we could
truly believe you’d be content
On some distant
menagerie,
Instead of
plotting where to bury you
beyond our sight.
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