You leave a supermarket
Or your former elementary school
Or a very important business meeting in a
Very important conference room
There is a clan of men
Outside the supermarket
Or elementary school
Or conference room
Who invite you to a party
You accept
Like a movie, you don’t see yourself walking there but
You are there
In the next scene.
At the party
The clan of men says
Let’s play a little game
You notice the other guests implicitly agree
Freely, without question
There is no quiet protest
So you implicitly agree.
The little game starts
The room is separated into two groups
The first group stands on the edge of the room
Each of them is given a placard with “100 percent” on it
You are in the second group, in the center of the room, in a circle
Your face is covered with a burlap cloth
It is blackness
You are not afraid
The clan of men start to speak
As a group
They repeat a call to action
It’s this:
We smash their faces in
Then they disappear
Over and over they say this
The first group
With the 100 percent placards
Are spared.
The clan of men
Use mallets
It doesn’t hurt
When you become gone