AS THEY SAY

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

DEVICE

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

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