AS THEY SAY
they paid
the ultimate price
got you thinking that
someone lined
you all eleven
against
a wall
found a
firing squad
to put them
you out of your
misery
miserable because
you lost the game via
a stupid
mistake
ultimate price;
as they say
WONDER
I wonder
where they come
up with them
am these
so called
wonderful days
the light soright
you can hardly
see anything
the joy so rapturously
sung here there
and everywhere
drowning out all
you might need or
wish to hear
DEVICE
it’s good that politicians
measure blood exactly
know to the recurring decimal
how much blood
resides in
an eye
when
exchanged for another eye
or a liver, spleen
or a brain
or a fat ton of innards
ripped out of the belly
they were
always in by
lethal fragmentation
weapon
or anti-personnel
explosive device
the weapons market considers
rather nice
NO FLIES
no flies on me
but the flies that
are on me
are jewelled, enamelled,
iridescent
and the buzz
they get to create
louder than
a perfect media storm
where two
idiotic major stories
crash into each somewhere
stupid out
in the mid-Atlantic
shedding each other pieces
as all
establishment voices
in pursuit
of the savage lie
are so hard-pressed
to miraculously achieve
poems 2 die for