AFTER THE RAINS

AFTER THE RAINS

after the rains
the grass grew high everywhere

swamped the farm gate so
you can barely see it from the road

which is
frankly reassuring

helps me to feel
I am adequately camouflaged

as I coil up on the bed
communing with my snake self

at peace and in contempt
of all those
evil men of the North

desperately insecure in
their hemisphere of rage, fundamental
scheme of violence

with their drones and devices
submarine delivered nukes and
uranium depleted
ammunition
at the core
of their true being

oh good seed bad seed
such vagaries in our condition

spread thoughout the cosmos
I might believe
zero
to infinity

yes and now your hear me
how could not find me out, search
hard
for me

feeling that the rains the mounting grass
will hide me, save me

in the lack of all basic state
of the art
otherworldly surveillance
and, of course, deterrence

secret
serpent can sleep
at least

EYES

EYES

eyes blue
green brown

saw so much
too little

some
of late
closed forever

and those
that closed them
some so
long

before their time
cannot believe but
that the Earth the Sky
the stars in the Heavens
cry out
for justice

whilst vengeance, brutal
and total vengeance

is the only
thought in my sickened mind

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

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