Category Archives: satire

THEY

THEY

they papered over the cracks
until there was only paper
the whole wall
was wallpaper
steadily depreciating
but as of now
worth a ton

but so much
focus on the paper
we were told
to forget about doors
forget about windows
forget about foundation
forget
about structure

and then
they wrapped all
our joys in
smothering, swaddling paper

killing them off
telling us
out with
the old in
with the new

and loss of our joys
pleasures and
freedoms

part of the
new beauty
wealth of
our trajectory

purpose of life reconceived for all

DEAD ISLAND

DEAD ISLAND

Oh something sank
in the history channel

something sank
having run aground

for our part
we floated nonchalantly
around that dead island
all those high tales, great fables,
dead as the stone
of a cenotaph to me

Oh spectral place
and yet
the juries are still out
it is conceivably not death
but a morbid moribundity
that plagues this place
fed its viral rage
a flag burned
not the whole fabric but
just a few cigarette holes skewered
right through it

as apocalypses go
it is like a half-wit
smothered, a
candle snuffed
the air
heavy with phosphates, nothing yet
so sulphurous
stared down to find the bottom of the tide

but there
not a live fish swam;

nothing
swims in this.

ABOVE

ABOVE

am so low
on devil energy

so low
on toxic masculinity

the serpent in me
low on hard
muscular power

the shattered lives of
those I loved
and left

envenomed, possessed
by my seed
left by the wayside

watching from the roadside
as I four by four
steamroller ahead

trucking my pilgrimage
to my date with destiny

no one more
sure of

his role in this world
place in Heaven, my
paradise above