Felony

The poem turns assault into a moral and mental compression where judgment becomes brutally binary.

Its shortness is part of its severity. The piece refuses elaboration and instead narrows everything toward decision, sides, and subtraction, which makes `Just get rid of one` feel cold, legal, and personal all at once.

Seven lines that trace how violence rewrites the person it touches. The repeated 'assult' (Jack's spelling) builds the recursion at the poem's center: the real horror is not the act but 'the horror the assult / makes you.' From there the poem moves to its bleak arithmetic - 'Make nothing of the math / Just get rid of one' - where the inability to 'asign life / to two sides' collapses into a single cold subtraction. The flatness is the point; it reports the logic of the felony without ever endorsing it.