The Criminal

We had a killing. It was really beyond us.
Most crime of the past was motivated
by money, but we only have banked labor
traceable through all exchanges to labor.

No one would accept it otherwise.
And there is no property to steal.
No one would recognize the title.
Maybe envy or jealousy or insult.

But none of that seems possible, to kill,
after all the dying. We are so sick of it.
A young man killed another young man.
Said he felt nothing, didn't know why.

We had a trial, but we didn't know what
to do with him. People avoided him
like they would a wolf or a mountain lion.
He is a monity now, a nation of one.