editing papers consuming the undesirable

the televised images of a holocaust
or some other crime committed against one human body against another
or the real image of a naked body
held tight against the eyes
for consumption
hard fast palpitations in the mind
along the individual markings of a spine
raise the same questions about reality
about the realism that exists between the way palms press against flesh
a consumerism that delivers us all into a world of interpretation
of reconciling the imagined
deliverance into a space where we’d like to form a clear coherent
genuine
individual
perspective
if only someone would tell us what we should make of it