They who should not be named

by Kevin Carey / April 19th, 2026

Invested in the slaughter of children.
Self-defense means starvation.
Rockets and bombs make good gifts.
Another ceasefire (not).
Erasure is the answer.
Lobby and monsters = God.

Kevin Carey’s books include the poetry collections: The One Fifteen to Penn Station, Jesus Was a Homeboy, Set in Stone, the co-written Olympus Heights, and the collaboration Revere Beach Stories: Poems and Photographs, and three books of fiction: The Beach People, Murder in the Marsh and Junior Miles and the Junkman which won the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers and has been chosen for the Pen Faulkner Writers in the Schools Program in Washington, DC. Kevin is the co-founder of Molecule: a tiny lit mag and a recent finalist for the Montana Prize in Fiction and the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. He recently co-directed and produced a new film, a murder mystery comedy, MFA: The Terminal Degree which has been selected for the LA Film Awards. Read other articles by Kevin, or visit Kevin's website.

This article was posted on Sunday, April 19th, 2026 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.