tuesday nite live

tues, 8pm.
i wuz running
   a game demo
   on my laptop

whn. i shot a man
   dead. my bullet
   wrenched his chest
   open as
   he crumpled moaning
   to the ground.

i did not know
   the man & had
   no reason to
   shoot him
   beyond
   the electronic curiosity
   of bloody murder & an
   american reflex to
   kill.

if i am tried for
   this bleeding crime
   i must plead
   guilty &

serve my penance in
   computer game hell
   with screaming nintendo sounds
   & manic trigger fingers.

we humans are not wise
   & i am human.

thus i enter the cyber
   world & thus
   i smite.