So now it's official. You can blow a hole in a plane with a six inch sachet of PETN powder concealed in your Y-fronts. If you thought airport security was already as inconvenient as it could get, think again.
Then take a second look at that fresh, innocent face. Who would believe it of him? We live in the days of the beautiful murderer.
Beautiful murderers
We live in the days
Of the beautiful murderer
See his face
Looking at you from the front pages
Of newspapers
The bloom of his mother’s tenderness
Not yet left the hair of his head
Or his cheeks, lips and eyes –
God has given him
The allure of his sex
But inside that head
Sits his own wild god
Who teaches him to kill
At even a small provocation –
And so this beautiful murderer
Whips out his blade of steel
And breaks our hearts
From Chosen People and other poems by David Haskell Cohen
Of the beautiful murderer
See his face
Looking at you from the front pages
Of newspapers
The bloom of his mother’s tenderness
Not yet left the hair of his head
Or his cheeks, lips and eyes –
God has given him
The allure of his sex
But inside that head
Sits his own wild god
Who teaches him to kill
At even a small provocation –
And so this beautiful murderer
Whips out his blade of steel
And breaks our hearts
From Chosen People and other poems by David Haskell Cohen
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