Commute

Commute

Killing is wholly non-commutative,
“I kill you” not the same as “you kill me”
yet they share quality of murderousness,
one lodged deep in the marrow we share

murder is an operation that’s launched
on impulse and from ideology which
may be but impulse costumed in reason,
murder’s not retractable, it endures

I am not you and yet I am as you,
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