The Arresting The Detaining The Immune

The Arresting officer throttled my dog

the Detaining  officer sniffs some glue

and while there are many other dogs

like it this one was mine, arm yourselves;

they will take your dogs to die. The Detaining

of the faculty to breathe. Now my dog

is strangled and detained and the officer

is Immune I write to the officer the Starr-

s are going out won’t you hold me as we watch them

pop and split when you feel how fully

you are strangled and detained,

officer, come into my arms I will peel the bitter tears

away, turn my face to the face beneath them the kiss of death

you strangled our dogs for this we are hurt in the marrow

yet still, we steer back from our idiot violence

choose a sterner path, the dissolution of the mind

the detaining of fists as they long for eyelids to tongue,

the Arresting heart rate the problem you live for

and oh the wages, remember your sick days, 

the Ambulance Service war room, containment

and erasure of dogs string me up from the nearest

lampost, throw away the key, gorgeous repairing heart lay 
a finger on my dog, scatter the engrams, I swear I’ll do time.