Alchemisland

I’m the streets’ Greek theatre

Praising Athena in Adidas

Under the overpass drinking sour mash from a tin cup

All the pasteboards are face up, seer’s face behind a drape

Into the future peers through her casement, face goes vacant

Don’t go there signs like on the way to a rapeshed

Do this in divine memory, the sanguine vine, the breakbread

My pen’s ink the inside of a disciple’s head, shot out by a sniper

Pink trifle on the pavement I picked up and saved in my inkwell

I ink well every time, blind man seeing, I had fifteen cans this evening

Holding walls to keep steady, seeming like a blind man, crack rock steady

Malevolent as Sargon the Second

Weapon readied for rebels slick steps cursed temple

Worse than Sauron or Morgoth, whom time forgot.

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How long you been a fat motherfucker, forever

You look like a man who got pregnant

I’ve been tapped since eleven, remember nine eleven live

Used to drink six Druids struth, skinny black jeans tucked into the boots

Walking home tanked beneath the moon, singing out loud like a lunatic

Live tonight sold out but there’s no crowd

Before I smoked loud was louder

I’m creating masterpieces with just pencil, you peasants using stencils 

I use the universal utensils

Spheres singing instrumentals, voice angels leant you

Giving up food during lent to become a penitent

Striving to be an anchorite before Yom Kippur

My lion heart absorbs stents, called me Nemean

Hit me your car cop the dent, xenomorph in my vents

Cracking wise everyone laughing, call me Pennywise.

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Night’s lambent I’m far from head down heave-ho Furze Road

Protestants have no taste, the glass has to be stained

Like the red hand of Ulster, skivers spides and dodgy fuckers abiding

In hiding, I see, Poseidon

Trident tips like a spinning compass, my outheld wrists accompaniment

To earth magic, I douse with raised eyebrows

Along ley lines bursting with dragon power

I pick a flower I know has magical powers and chew it, sour don’tspitout

Hour later meteor shower making craters of my grey matter

Watching battles in heaven

Israeli issile trajectories Palestinian

Tragedy factories in the Levant, dissident factions

Leaders unelected heeding dark direction

Bidden hidden sect, insurrection’s best

At sedition gach lá until I collar them

Then it’s Marshall and Forest Law laying down the law

Cultivate dignity reciting Blade Runner teardrops soliloquy

Then hit them with the Brian Fury

Banned from church for practising alchemy

Banned from the playboy mansion for vanity.