IN HELL THERE IS NO HUMANITY

IN HELL THERE IS NO HUMANITY

in Hell
there is no humanity
nothing collective, shared
or universal

just
   Slice N’ Dice
fragmentation
   upon fragmentation

but music there is,
if the cacophony of suffering
should ever
    set into a rhythm
strike a tune

on its way to achieving
pre-planned and project
managed
    levels of production

the eternally tight schedules
that devils like to keep

loving
     the massive profits
forever configured
in this
their system of
anti-belief

SWEET

SWEET

good day
to die

day to die
with whipped cream
and sweet
   red cherry on
the top

and perfect cherry blossoms
for you too
   my lords Oda and Katsimoto
you see them
from our world of pain
as seppuku
takes you
     across the river
through the veil

and extra scoop
of fudge ice cream for all
who turned up
for the wake

sweet fudge caramel
ice cream

cold as a glacier
        have to
stall
   here at this place
this moment

as words
freeze

CHANCE

CHANCE

spied you
playing with dice

betting as you were
against the cosmos

maybe
it would be better
to play with fire

sad to see you lost
sad to
    tell everybody

something to do
with cursed sequence
and bad fractals

I know this
been there
done that

watched from my
fiction of a promontory
as everything ran
down
    hill from here
Valentino Rossi
popping a wheelie
in sixth gear

thought
  I could have
another go     another throw

by unanimous consent
agree to reconsider

last last chance
        the dice so obviously
heavily loaded
ninety-nine
     times out of
a hundred to
cast snake eyes

DEVICE

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