Alchemisland

We start the round, touching gloves

Hand clasped fast like you always were an asshole Gorman

I’m psycho goreman mixed with Goro 

Immortal and immoral, mortal kombat borrow 

My fight finishes to make wince-inducing finishers

Bruises, my purple painting contusions intrude your amusement

Communicator

Your man is getting boxed up 

Heavy jab legs jelly 

Jab heavy

Half his face bust Harvey

Dent his head with heavy 

Lefts, he’s got nothing left

My corner shout press him press him

I take five, I’m ten out of ten, dial up to eleven

Send him to cloud nine, twelve in heaven

Make room for another brethren in the bread line

Rikki Tikki Tavi going Tyson on a cobra

Rope a dope Rocky in the corner

Grope a dope, stocky in the pocket

Shoulder him, trapped like pic in a locket

Grow my dope, sticky marijuana

Coming back from the party 

Gardens gowned for summer

Flower garlands and garters 

Dying on the Dart

I’ll get off here and walk 

Know it’s all talk 

But it’s something to go on

See a taxi getting flagged to cease 

Checkpoint with three traffic Gardaí

Glad it’s not me

Breath like bacardi 

With hands on the wheel

Alri bud when I walk in, get carded

Get retarded when I’m inside the place

But show this fat bouncer a sober face

At the bar I’m drinking like it’s a race 

Trying to erase it, got spectators 

Temper I raise, hit, got sparked off

No one stood when I asked who’s Spartacus

Stars sparkling around the dome of the man I sparked out

He starkly realizes, slow realization

He smartly crawls to the dark corner away from the situation

The future I can discern it badly

Forms smeared seen through a glass bead

A familiar face spied through a glass of beer

Through a glass darkly, a pied, black-skied future I descry

As the crow flies so the missile flies 

Arrow straight until it dives

Blackwinged, black evening dress, black star rising to backward orisons as everyone dies

The familiar is destroyed, the unknown like a void heaving and black we’re stuffed into like cats in sacks and dragged to river banks

None of this can be avoided