Steven Schroeder | inauspicious tools
weapons are
inauspicious tools
all despise them
weapons are
inauspicious tools
do not use them
victory is
not beautiful
beautify it
and you are
happy with murder
when people are killed
they should be mourned
when a victory is won
treat it as a funeral
from a guest giving way like ice melting: thirteen ways of looking at laozi (poems and paintings, with Debby Sou Vai Keng). Ink Brush Press | 2010
