1, poem, poetry, – Page 103

DEVICE

it’s good that politicians
measure blood exactly

know to the recurring decimal
how much blood
resides in
an eye
when
exchanged for another eye

or a liver, spleen
or a brain

or a fat ton of innards
ripped out of the belly
they were
always in by
lethal fragmentation
weapon

or anti-personnel
explosive device

the weapons market considers
rather nice

ENHANCE

not enough
outrageously wonderful
stars up there

need some more
to stop it failing
as a spectacle

paint me, etch me
an additional few up there to
give everybody
in the galaxy
something to think about

we’ll keep it a secret between us
exactly what we did

no one else having the faintest idea
where this brand new
Rigel, Vega, Betelgeuse
and Sirius came from

the more
the merrier they
will probably say

not the great cosmologists though, their knickers
surely now
going to get
into a twist

knocking their careful relativity
space-time curvature calculations
uncomfortably cocked-
hat sideways

not their thing really
to find their all-
conquering physics suffering
a degree of
unnecessary embarrassment
in the cause
of our natural human
creative desire
for the ability to
transform and artistically enhance

NEW DAY

MACHINE

I spoke to him
less than joyously.
this evening

he is the child Stalin
of design
and engineering

death camps of Lego
Meccano war macjines

cannot wait to see
the all grown up reality
   if this
            be his
childhood dreams.

PROFOUND

locked and loaded
you heart is chambered
with a single round

deep beneath those waves
I hear all echoes
of those pressures

the music of
that trio who drowned
as the deck slunk downwards
opened to ocean

and we
so open there

who will ever
surface to speak
of what we have become

commerce with this
so ruled and regulated

of
all our undertakings
without doubt the most profound
(and word
wheree there is little choice
save love ot hate
the completeness of sound)

completeness
and dare I say finality
of its sound

NEW BEGINNINGS

NEW BEGINNIBGS

the theme of
the poetry competitions
was “new beginnings”

so I worked
on my entry

my poem
on new beginnings

but try as hard as I might
could not complete it

every
single line

a new beginning

COMBATANT

not sure
if I am.a
combatant

not sure
if i could
fight my way
out of any
dark space

but when
it comes to
combatants
you can’t, best
not
take any
chances

need ro
send me
back to my
maket before
I can utter
a word

out of my
lyimg, treasonous
treacherous,
dangerous mouth

or here, on this paper

CRIED AND DIED

Empire
he called himself

he was
Ragnar Lothbrok
on steroids

Gengis Khan
with an
attitude problem

at age five
he took down
every toy
store in his
home town

at age twenty-six
the inmates of
a maximun security
prison
broke out
in order to escape
from him

he had the whole text
of Titus Andronicus
tattoed across
his body

and when
the war of final
days was declared

he laughed so loud
he cried and died.

ENTIRELY

getting so thin and boney
that ghosts and spirits
pass right through me

magic, quantum
tunneling, near
death experience

I leave it to you
to call
it what you will

and
depend on you
to put yourself in
my shoes
before they

disappear entirely

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