Eileen R. Tabios

  

      Black on Black

              after Black Square by Kazimir Malevich

      The Jeffrey Epstein Haybun

When you have more than 3 million pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images to sift through, one expects the gaze to become blurred. Or that it would be impossible for a dozen words to synthesize a summary. But the poem is always up to its task by highlighting what Jeffrey Epstein once spat out while gnawing on Judas Iscariot, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Gaius Cassius Longinus:

 “Girls

are like

shrimp—you pull

off the head

and leave

bodies”