DREAMCATCHER

DREAMCATCHER

glad to see you installed
your dreamcatcher

hanging over your bed,
very best place to be

so many twists and turns
these days in the fabtic of the real

and therefore
one should position
                     this transcendent web

for
   optimum screening

would not want
            to find a baby xenomorph
and its twin

chomping their way through
your chest

       to celebrate first breath
with the simultaneous
death of
  its mummy and daddy

terrible in film, or real life,
let alone a dream

not that there are not
    dreams more disturbing,
hideous  and

altogether more poisonous

involving ships and planes
missile tracking radar and
self-
   appointed
policemen of the seas

ANTS

ANTS

enough of your antics
you
so-called politicians
most partisan of people

let the ants decide
the future of our planet

so many many
more of them
and one
creature
one vote
is that not what
democracy is supposed
to be
all about

the thing elites fear, historically
from Plato to
Nero and Caligula
and every
evil regime of brothers

no ants they got a matriarchy
and I’m sure their Queen
will be cool
with whatever saves
the day
averts the death of
our shared
blue
planet
(Janet)

before it goes like Venus
goes like Mars
atmosphere like
black lagoon
or none at all
full rocky horror

so no more fiddling
identity cards, restricted polls
delimitation, boundaries,
every
outright illegal attempt
to gerrymander the system

give the ants the vote
give it to
every creature

can’t
do worse than we
have done

no time for legal
linguistic quibbles

time we
turned partisan
into
“partisant”

(show this world, this Universe
what this species

is all about
narcissistically thought
to be
a Divine image)

SKY CITY

SKY CITY

cities in the sky
beneath the waves

circling the Moon
dug into
    the rock on Mars

towering structures of
steel and
          glass

not for me in my lifetime
this realization of
all we
        did dream

not
    for me
but
  for you
  maybe

maybe these
wonders
for you

or your children
or your children’s children

if you
    have
            a lifetime

and they
have any
    kind of
existence at all