Marimba by Chris Butler

Even after the final shot
shatters the sound barrier,
and the officers
in tactical body armor
with semi-automatic
handheld war machines
have swept and cleared
every classroom,
they never hear silence,
as the cell phones
with no
sons or daughters
left to answer
ring until the battery's
are all dead.



Chris Butler is an illiterate poet and an anorexic starving artist from the new world's New England. The 10th and final volume in his "Poems of Pain" collection, Beatitudes, is scheduled for publication in 2023. He also has published a book of poems co-written with Dr. Randall K. Rogers, entitled Dead Beats. He is the co-editor of The Beatnik Cowboy.