terça-feira, 31 de outubro de 2023

Heroes for fuel

 These heroes now turn and look toward me
I open the furnace door and invite them in
it's hot in there and ill burn them to get the ash
that will amend the soil

The state invests in great fire
in their competition with the outside
i've herded them into pastures
where they feed on imagery and noise

soon to be burnt up in my trusty furnace
Because I need to keep the garden pumping
that old garden of eden
right next to armagaeddon

Heroes that go obediently
ridiculing the independent
conveniently incinerated
in predictable cycles

They turned off the lights

 i've reinvented this world
cunningly switched the tides
drowning the hierarchy
now a begger with vision

Now bigger than fission
Weaving through the mess
burning ends and chewing thread
majesty

i've reinvented this whole world
as mediocre as you all are
human ants
arrogant fleas

consuming for purpose
superstitious
meager and pretentious
unconscious

a city full of millions
and only a sprinkle of lights are on
heavy with the popular lies
dragging your way through a whole new drama

so that life has a gram of meaning

quinta-feira, 26 de outubro de 2023

On the end of the fork

 thick whole of the brush
absorbed into mud floored streams
into the land of it
through the grass
heavy and curious

permission to cross another border
sandwiches go inside mouthfulls
sceptical border guards
the limits are all desire distilled

the thicket and streams 
made sacred through the echo
from great mountains
permission to sit up there now

down here ive been kept until i left
so many steps left
fill the tank on ridicule
burns bright in the engine
great mileage

great mouthful of grass
thick cushioning undergrowth
every insect worshipping inside
temple of life

quarta-feira, 25 de outubro de 2023

Bereaved

 Son 
I lost you whole
current took you

your screams off in the distance
abandoned to the water
this distress

a tonne of bricks
a silly game
fun turned dread

son 
river swallows you
out of my hands

gone from my world
under
unseen now

I raised you 
to this point
you were mine

a blink of an eye
angels toasting
bye son

drowned
gone are the smiles
gone is home

terça-feira, 24 de outubro de 2023

The power of intrigue

 My gale
my wind
where did you come from?

My subject 
My love of all loves
Under this empire

heat and power
vice
minions spy over it all

Their little spies
tickle the meglomaniac heart
passions of the simple man

belong to me
to me

and where are you
so alone
my gale
my wind

I see you at the top of the spire
uncles built
to witness the kingdom

we built this together
smiles and tears
parallel
machine guns
 pointed

fear joy
holding hands
oh you are too right
 for this farm

I've brought you here
to witness this land
empire

blending
rising 
rising
up

so you see the lines
of my face
 on the land

awake and out
take your vice
and pray this soon

my power grows
like a ball in your hand
ember in your mind

like spice
blending
that won't leave
your naked tongue

so see your life
power to mine
intrigue

...ache


segunda-feira, 23 de outubro de 2023

the turns

 You also lost your life there
come to me full of shame
ray of terror wakes me
your blank eyes staring

The gate to your deliverance is not built
the company you keep stirs your limited perception
providence cries out to you
turning your back

you'll have no relief in the living
search for those ghouls of fate
out in the mountains and flats
of these hot fields of the earth

the earth turns and dizzies you

The bread of experience

 on the addiction and blazing world
we have another destination
further from here

these humans 
as two year old babies
peering up at the nightsky
wishing for some kind of answer

wistful blasphemy
subtle destruction
the saw rocks back and forth through time
cutting it in half

magician absent
fires and narcotics
feasts and awards
Trapped on the earth