LATEST
our latest pandemic
is despair
such lunacy
there amongst
the political class
contagious as a virus
infectious as a même
and the idiocy of it all
unique in humanity
to forget
in an instant all
we have learnt
and tune
out truth and
critical thinking
could not be
more antithetical
to the sickness project
RUIN
smooth
so smooth
we aiming at
connection, continuity,
threading stars
together
but across that ancient sea
another Troy is burning
a people scattered
a tale to be told
a tale of legend
a tragic tale
where the gods
stood idle
those that
did not
brutally interfere
so smooth
in this moment
of possession
and yet
we
thinking
cannot help
but think
of all that we
know of this civilization
stacked with heritage
and yet
centred on all that defines us
in these myths and legends
of Troy and Carthage
Alexandria
and the
Levant
ploughed under, erased by the victors
we seek out that history
from the depths
of their ruin
so smooth so smooth
the stars
that
brought
us here
OUT OF WORDS
a poem
came floating by
blessed song and
me so ravaged, stunned,
out
of words
whispered to me
tales of terrible war
of superlatives
litanies of pain, of agony
and yet
promise that
somehow, sometime
all will
be restored
the great theatre of the stars
still
speaking even through the
smoke of the sky
whispering that the tragedy
can
turn become
our great final human comedy
once, at last,
we begin
to understand
so many broken souls
wishing to take themselves far away
out of words
a poem came floating by
STRINGS
truth
beauty
the puppet
moves, speaks
I pull
a few strings
not my usual bag
to first cause anything
but when it talked
slanted, funny, out
of the side
of its mouth
I bore a hole through
its wooden brain
put a
shot through its temple
when I
peepd through the hole
not exactly
suffused in wisdom
or, since you
request it,
resonant with your symbolism
guidimg to
the light
the overwhelming
light
and you sitting with your calculator using calculus to broach the number of atrocities
you need to fit every piece into the puzzle
see the landscape restored to how you have always envisaged it how it has never been, perhaps (logic, splitting fragmenting even as we talk through this) will never be
and the mirror monster at last smothered under the holy rock and stone of countless tiny mountains of atrocity
so many bones the foundation of the Everest you are building
LAST LAUGH I BELIEVE
libraries of
law
rendered irrelevant
thanks to an insult
of a defence
premised on
the untenable
presented as if
it were
an ad
campaign
and all we have now
is shark in the tank
and biggest
gets
to eat everything
great white nosing its way
in speed
huge as a submarine
think it’s just going to
laugh if
I proclaim myself to
have court
protection, have
injunction, cease fire,
have restraining order
catch all those
rows of serrated teeth
last laugh is
his
I believe