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EVERYTHING

EVERYTHING

the daisy
chain you
are wearing
has become
barbed wire

but who foresaw
this transformation?
nailed it down
as per
    causality?

I am moved by your poem
shed three and five tears
but
   forgive me
if I am holding out
for an explanation

believe
         poem can be
the key

to unlock
    everything

AUNTIE


AUNTIE

auntie
knows best

she banned
the sex pistols
and they
were
pure poetry

lampooned
the punk
sensibility

which lassoed her
back with a
lait of
    barbed wire

sowed
satirical fire

telling her and
the whole damned
lot of them

their fundanental
humanity
              left
a lot
to be desired

saw
   before any of us

the hole in the heart
of this
     terminally convoluted
self-
    sabotaging self-
disregarding machine

auntie
   knows best

she banned the sex pistols
not an idea
           in her head

CARDS

CARDS

let me
drift off for a
moment

step out
of the picture

read
   the cards

get a prediction
of what awaits me
and, as
      a matter of
implicit consequence

most
certainly the wider world

making me
a figure as iconic
as prophetic

a buttetfly fellow
whose every flap of
confusion
              signifies story
to follow
eventual doom

CAMERA! LIGHTS!

CAMERA! LIGHTS!

camera! lights!
let’s shoot
this love scene

make it so authentic,
passionate,
   nobody not
going to
suspend disbelief

realism, naturalism,
take your pick of those
what-you
  -see-is-what-you-get
styles and genres

after which
       we can watch the
dailies

catch the passion
before
       it gets edited and

maybe
     we get
        to believe it is real too

FAR FROM IT

FAR FROM IT

far from it,
we did not
get rid
of them

as vicious and
insufferable
as they had become

we just let them
fade into nothing
embrace
    non-being

going nowhere
we simply allowed them
to reach
   that destination

perhaps ushering them
a little
    but it was for
their own good

genocide?
    no that is their
much contested term
and yet
habitual practice

such actions
          lie beyond us
this word
not in
our vocabulary

but see
     look here

admire
what we have done with
the planet
       how we have integrated
everything, biological
and technological
organic
   and machine

everything flourishing,
renewable and recyclable

this
    our mandate terrestrial
and cosmic
in equal aesthetic and
intellectual measure

ours
   is the new spirituality
to take
   across the galaxy

theirs a
     contempt for themselves,
the sacredness of being
and life
        of every living thing

AND BEYOND

AND BEYOND

happily
we are
expanding the war
extending the fighting
throughout
to whole region

taking on
every axis of resistance
axis of evil

allowing the entire
government, every
politician to
wallow in
power
play
    at battle

extend expand
the conflict

across the globe
to the edges
of ths galaxy

killing boldly
where no one
has ever killed before

for
all eternity

to infinity
and beyond