Author Archives: Damian Garside

ONCE AND FOR ALL

ONCE AND FOR ALL

was talking to you
but then
you evaporated
tried to speak
more loudly
but it was
to no avail

but what is space
anyway
but a construct
of gravity
when we are hurtling
in our group
of forty galaxies
towards some
great attractor
billions of light years
away in space

hundreds of kilometres
a second
how do you even
start to
wrap your mind around it
but for relativity
such a speed would
be impossible
to comprehend

and
the fabric of the Universe
expanding above light speed
about to strip
the stars
away from us
and all else

this and more
I get from skimming through
all those YouTube channels
finding an
alternate politics
to chart how deeply runs
the establishment lie

pictures of the war, of
slavering holy savagery

mind-bending theories
of our origin, identity
and destination

disasters to
end the planet
once and for all

I was going off and this
when they decided it
was right
and proper

a political necessity
to turn you
and your world
to ash and rubble

an insane vision
that somehow,
for my sins, I do not share

BATTLEFIELD

BATTLEFIELD

butterfly
fluttered over

the battlefield
trench war
combined arms
cyber war

tanks
versus chlldren

butterfly was looking
for someome, anyone
to give some
kind of explanation

but we
        are humanity

we kill in the name of
all we hold dear

incapable of
the art of transormation

RATHER

RATHER

send me to Hell
rather than Israel

put with the wicked wicked,
thrice wicked poets
and beloved philosophers
who got everything wrong
with every evil
left-winger
who went to extremes
to get justice for humanity

not with oligarchs and Presidents
and chief
executive officers
of Corporate entities
and those whose mouthings
about
and tinkerings with
the dream of democracy

led to
the crushing of humanity
beneath such unconscionable power

send
me

to Hell

rather than to Israel

DESERVING OF THE WORST

DESERVING OF THE WORST

evil never wins
I said this and
evil collared me
demanded I be
silenced
as a self-confessed
proponent of the evil
of anti-evil
and therefore deserving
of the worst that
evil can throw at me

and I have watched
in horror the workings
of your great and good holy
chosen nation evil

watched
how pure
the sickness of its anti-
human cruelty can be

DESERVING OF THE WORST

DESERVING OF THE WORST

evil never wins
I said this and
evil collared me
demanded I be
silenced
as a self-confessed
proponent of the evil
of anti-evil
and therefore deserving
of the worst that
evil can throw at me

and I have watched
in horror the workings
of your great and good holy
chosen nation evil

watched
how pure
the sickness of its anti-
human cruelty can be

DESERVING OF THE WORST

DESERVING OF THE WORST

evil never wins
I said this and
evil collared me
demanded I be
silenced
as a self-confessed
proponent of the evil
of anti-evil
and therefore deserving
of the worst that
evil can throw at me

and I have watched
in horror the workings
of your great and good holy
chosen nation evil

watched
how pure
the sickness of its anti-
human cruelty can be

IN STYLE

IN STYLE

well
Mr Pulitzer

find it a surprise
to find you so
forthcoming

declare nakedly
truth is not one
of your virtues

for what good
is truth
if it do
not help the cause

feed the tribe
who need you
to step up
to the plate

put
your credibility
on line

add your special
award winning gloss
to the vicious lie

your reputation
such that
facts are
irrelevant

and with a tale this
lurid can really
run with it

nothing quite stokes
demand for vengeance

like the most
outrageous, vicious lie

so well
concocted
the rest
is immaterial

supreme triumph
of the right of style

BY DESIGN

BY DESIGN

I like the designs
she came up with
the adaptations
to allow
us to survive

and so much more
stepping into a teal sea
under a soft violet sky

we find
       we love it in this
alien ocean

together we flow
forgetful of time and

smooth and succinct in
the way we explore
            our streamlined acuity
release
from gravity.