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PARTY PIECE
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PARAGON
of hysteria
you are
the paragon
need
to live in
a bubble
under
an umbrella
free from paradox
parasite and
(above all)
each and
every
unsettling parallel
a dome in which
there are
no voices
just
dead echo
and
life continues
as before
as before
beyond time and history
above consideration
AND DICED
Oh the satire
ran away from me
shunned civility,
turned severe
demarcated sharply
for slicing
sheep on the one side
goats on the other
yet
to preserve some
semblance of balance
nothing in the middle
a house divided:
those who laughed
set against
those who cried;
and those, true
to the sport
who both
laughed and cried
and then up
on high prior so
monstrously reversed
those whose guilt of complicity
though masked by
whatever
fake camouflage
ran
horribly
deep
that like Vampires in the light
suddenly stripped of immunity
and with
ripped-off
disguise
all they dare do is lie
down with their victims
(human
at last) wither
and die
(sadly only
metaphorically, in my
wildest imagination, even
though the world,
planet,
cosmos
crying out for justice;
desperate for correction).
THANK YOU
I thank you
for letting me
look through
your eyes
getting a
whole new perspective
everything in
perspective
seeing what you
mis-see
PLEASE YOURSELF
please yourself
it’s not your war
and why should
old injustices
present slaughter
trouble
you
you have
your own life to decode
everyday concerns
to fret over
so much
fretting there
who cannot forgive
your total dedication
to present
woe and
need
pleasing yourself
finding
what you pray will
prove
(and provide)
supreme relief (in
an extremity
beyond
belief)
BLOT
it’s a dance alright
insane dance
of alignment
and here you are
in all your impudence
to call
out
the false steps
connect
all the dots
turn down the volume
on same same
cranky tune
call out those writers
meant to
lyric
this song
fingers dictated, pens
all over the place
text they have written just
a fat Rorschach blot
DEAD
morality is dead
it died before
our very eyes
both slow
lingering death
and death like lightning
death by lightning
but don’t
say anything
let us pretend
morality is still alive
otherwise
they will shoot
us where we stand
or where
we kneel (execution
style)
as is
their moral duty
moral right
TANGENTIAL
as the camera pans
and tracks
keenly observant
as the eye of God
note all of it
down
take it
into evidence:
here a triptych of images
from the bowels
of Hell
avenues of billboards
picturing the unspeakable
and here words untethered, words
of wild association
and here
in consequence, dancing
on fresh graves
grinding down the monuments
crushing the flowers
all we
need is a river
coiled like
a serpent
and we have apocalypse now
*****
Excuse me
apologies for
throwing you into this headlong
without thought of a preamble
felt you are
so familiar with this
terrain
no introduction required
observe us now: myself
and an odd band
of philosophers
in open formation
making huge headway as
we navigate the path
between
battlefields
move from battlefield to
battlefield
observing with horror
how far we have slid
from regime of rational truth
and the care
of the wise gods
finding the think tanks and
complexes and factories
structures wide
as whole cities, reaching
upward to Heaven
portals to
supremacy
foundaries for the steel and ghe stone for us to build
our lush monuments
utterly expressive of our
desire
for eternal comfort
and peace
and as
for the price paid
we do not
let it run away from us
but
(in tight formation now)
keep it
carefully monitored
the debt in hard currency
always balanced
in blood
for philosophically speaking
this is
a landscape of division
cruel dialectic
and dichotomy
those who did this finding
means to speak that
horror
terrifying their madness
out of them
sculpting the darkness
of the species in
such
exquisitely warped
form
JAVELIN it is false flag picture of anomaliea and discrepancies vituperative, driven by the pressure of lie upon lie it is strange when we confront you with logic . seems a weapon so alien thing that threatens to stop a tank in its tracks
STUMBLE
we were falling asleep
trying to left-brain
follow every
technicality after
technicality
(South Africa got no case
because we forgot
to insist on
a reply)
but we will show you
dispute if you
diss our
deep integrity
(bet after this you
wish we were
your legal
arm)
but where
were your human fire and
intensity
moments of raw humanity
saw only a shifting of the goal posts
a stilted conjuring act
none of that Irish flair and poetry
threatening to scorch the beams in
the palace roof bringing it tumbling down, everything upside
down
and tumbling down
the world tipped South and
the Southern Cross
pointing the way
dear next Dante
away
from Hell
and towards Heaven
yes no poetry, not a flash at all,
just stumbling responses
and mixed-up
papers shuffled like cards but
all of them
jokers
not a poet
in the pack
not one
homegrown (perhaps
you did
them in
as you did every voice in Gaza
especially
those of the poets