OH MUSE OF SATIRE
oh muse of satire
make the armies small
as the pipsqueaks of Lilliput
make the kids big
as the giant children
of Brobdingnag
then
in the eyes of God
we can have us
a fair
fight!
Tag Archives: satire
PHYSICS IN A BOX
PHYSICS IN A BOX
the physics
of a box
is such
that if
pressure
is applied
squeeze
is made
something will leak
or rather
burst out
explode
blow up in
to the faces of those
informed by
the highest principles
ignore the basic lase
of boc physics
(physics
in a box)
LATEST
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
SPECTACLES
SPECTACLES
my spectacles
are too foggy
for this world
this world
is too foggy
for these
spectacles
you may
call this
serendipity
but I call
it shit
unable to
see anything
past my
nose
no hope of
validating
even the mildest
of all
these
global
conspiracies
some
of course
with their
own spectacular fog machines
OF THE AGE
OF THE AGE lies live lies survive lies fly all over the place so much destruction in their wake their instinct being to replicate split like mutant cells divide and be careful how you yourself do define for here service to the lie loses the light goes completely blind for shadow has shown too easy it be to mistake the love of a death embrace become the thing we fear we hate the beautiful hypocrite of the age the lie in us so consummate
A WORD
A WORD
let me have a word
let me fill
you in
from a poetry
am going to need
twenty, maybe
thirty
thousand
characters already
oops1 sorry,
my apology
did I say
“characters”?
that was a bit
of a fatal Freudian slip
I meant to say “words”;
no sorry: lines
no I am completely wrong
in the wrong
to do this justice
I need to write
the final
death count
as poems
FULL HOUSE
FULL HOUSE sorry I was going to send you this poem but someone shuffled my papers mixed me up completely dealt a hand of jokers when I was crying for trying for a full house anything that would shoe I had all my cards in the suit of humanity
MAMBAS
MAMBAS so complacent and complacent yet again left-brain, right wing such recipe for human stupidity deluding yourselves into expecting slow worms when we came as mambas — venom measured to make maximum use of every critical drop and prempting rebuttal speed off ths charts impossible to catch us and how you floundered losing your sense of place and actual places slipping into paralysis mamba neurotoxic venom stealing into your system taking slow but incontravertibly catastrophic effect
WHITEBOARD
WHITEBOARD
I see
two pictures
of a
whiteboard
believe
they have been
decontextualized
all the blood
washed away.
NO SOONER
NO SOONER
no sooner than they
amputated her
legs
and arms
no sooner
than they shot them
all
execution style
than
I forgot
thought it best
not to remember
better one of ths carefree,
untroubled people of
this dead planet
the be haunted
for the entirety of
what remains
of my
life
remains of human life