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REAPER

REAPER
.
I sowed my oats
(whole, rolled, instant)

built an ark in
a time of drought
(deploying modern
hi-tec materials, paste,
carbon-fibre)

set my GPS to rapture to
navigate the
longitude and
latitude of
much
theological mess

sea of troubles
oceans of transition

came looking for your soul
heart of your true being
so pure
and, yes,
so pink

me hot for that
like blazing meteor
as I torch
the atmosphere some
dinosaur checking me out

my soul
much refried red
giant comparatively speaking

hot to the touch, sizzling
Carolina Reaper off
the Scoville charts

as I
negotiate your lips

FIRE

FIRE

I am fire
born just
  shy of fire

when fire comes
to swallow

I am
now you see me
now you
fail to see me

stick turned
to embers

very
fast food

and your lips
bathed in capsicum
hellfire delicious
beyond
  imagining

stoked
fired up
to hire and fire
your shit together
locked
      and loaded

raring to go
round in the chamber

DEEPER

DEEPER

with this heat
we could start
a conflagration

strike
a match
go suoernova

let the rest
hold onto
their horses

whilst
we wake the dead

cries and sighs
abounding they must
be visualizing
sheer carnage

and so
deeper deeper
               deeper

let
us go

terrible tunes
needed when
the times themselves
terrible

and the mountains of dead
brothers, sisters, cousins
in need
   of awakening

and the living too
needing much
        to jolt them

if no billion volt supercharge
can fry the zombie out of them

some volcano
will do

feel one
       erupting this moment

Krakatoa especially
                           our
speciality

NIBBLE

NIBBLE

nibble
nibble
nibble

cit the wrong wire
armed the system
the count down

going
crazy

we both doomed
whatever explosion
between us

whatever
volcano
about to
erupt

magma
upon magma
superhot caldera

no hope for us now
started with a nibble
a single, fatal
total nibble

here is a desire
unleashed

devourimg
everything in its path

FLAME

FLAME

so committed
to the horror
they ignore,
overlook, suppress
the flame

Oh, brief terrible candle,
do you not know
that it is possible
for the atoms
in your body
to reach critical mass?

that you could blow
like a regular backya
plutonium warhead
take out a street, a city,
a neighborhood

and even then
they would not listen
would find
the spin to
cover their sins
hide their complicity
deflect all blame

but you burn small
tiny, a brief candle,
your death your own
no spreading
no lingering

sign of how deep
it runs, all
the refused shame

DEVIL IN THE DORITOS


DEVIL IN THE DORITOS

the chips
I am eating are
flaming hot
off the scale as
regards their
Scoville rrating

each chip not a chip
as much as shot
of concentrated flame,
chemical fire
   calculated to build
up to a spike
and then
   the endophins come
floating
first in a dribble and
then
    in a stream, a tide of
feel good
a one with the Universe
though a
   furnace is raging

you in the Himalayas, up
on Everest
     about to summit K2

on every psychadelic music
record cover
            a picture of nirvana
(state, not
Seattle grunge band)

and redeemed by the fire,
purged by the near
nuclear
    (thing built
by Oppenheimer there in
New Mexico) a

picture of you

BURN

BURN

life is not
margarine

spread liberally itself
across crisp, crusty
oven-
    fresh bread
yellow golden

no
life is that
which sticks and
burns

rips off your charred skin
falling from Heaven
like napalm,
      white phosphorous
or those cluster
people killers
that break into toy-size
teeny-tiny

run like Cristiano
fast and zig-
zag as
    you can
across the entire Nou Camp
a bomblet
will find you

mind body problem
nothing in the body
the mind
   has not figured, over-
thought
   how to how to
horrendously kill

but the Sun continues
for millions of years
this avatar of hierarchy
will
    seem so god-
like, be
forever shining

until
    like us

it get old, fat and greedy
swallow
      the Earth entirely

desperate for survival;
new stuff to burn