Right Action (poem)

Right Action

curious about horrors

warnings of graphic content, last phone calls

“last phone calls” a titled feature

The thing that would be said frankly

may or may not

6.7 million views, 506,000 views, 645,000 views, 2.7 million views,

4.8 million views, 1.2 million views

Footage from copyrighted material, altered,

sometimes cropped, enhanced. Credit is given

sometimes and sometimes not

We have no guidance; we have no sense of safety

We fail to measure from the precipice in degrees

Back to find where the compass points us

6.7 million views, 506,000 views, 645,000 views, 2.7 million views,

4.8 million views, 1.2 million views

These millions are not ghouls

These quantities are not abnormality

Those ##### on the edge of savage sentimentality

Separates itselves from the cloak over the head

If charity worked as wished, problems would go away

well-paid, but charity grows new tangles in the guise

of shock-fiends with open ribs

hearts browbeating a molten body

into a seat of judgment

from which to grab down

yourself in the place of a neutral witness

Again, as with the path trodden

See each that rises, see you as each seeing each

See money flutter off in ashes

Money, of centuries, centuries, is not the loss

Eight

Right Understanding

(2025, Stephanie Foster)