Alchemisland

Back at the athlete village, booze stocks getting pillaged

Locks knocked off lockers with rocks

Two time bronzers running around with outed cocks

Fiends open-throated usually confined to strict diet

Eating like Laestrygonians, going everywhere

All the Olymypians loaded, decoded off two beers

The tools are at play, swaying on medalled feet

They chat easily with life rivals, walker between tribes

They gave me the Midas, I gave Midas my touch

You can’t admire Medusa, I’m the sole appaloosa among you piebalds

I’m Samson pied orpiment

You’re the bald assassin from Hitman getting Turkish implants.

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Weightlifter looking like he’s going to explode

On the podium playing lyric poems on your melodeon

Everyone around me is a foeman

Mind wide as Loch Lomond

Confirmed by gold with the slo-mo

Dust lunch all you slowpokes.

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If you only won an argent, don’t talk to the sergeant

I’m haunting the fringes, so still I’m in marble

Hold my chin honourable, marvellous invisible armour

If harm’s done knit karma, rum-roused alarum among the runners

Going door to door like mummers, wearing only socks and runners

Summer of love and shrubs ends with a knife shoved into Sharon

Smoke wreathing me like Aaron, folk greeting me like mayoral

I’m like Snake fielding calls from Meryl and Otacon, revolver in my ocelot

Soon as Sniper Wolf got shot, I realised I had the hots for her

I got offered a contract full back Tottenham Hotspur

Written in brimstone, papyrus smelled like sulphur.

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Shot you through the goretex, duck down

Quintuple sprays across the forecourt, toppling those failing to duck down

Planned it, planet in my cortex, bandit with a violence magnet

I’m the primate, supreme magnate, magnanimous slash you inanimate

Top a man and let it out

Blood fountains spouting, fensent Grendel in the gorehot

I’m snouting into his guts like they held truffles, raising steam

Gag muffles mercy pleas, mercy please grown from evil seeds

Turok 2, to band my hat

Knock out a tooth with the tomahawk haft or gat handle

My handlers drive down from Antrim in a black regless van

Saw you up into bits, from mansize to can-size

Capsize your raft with rafts of capricious violence, Scrooge forevermiser

Praying the sun won’t rise as I fellate my rifle

Layers of darkness like a whiskey trifle I trifle with

Struggle’s surcease, emerge stained dripping something Fraggle Rock

Violent chrysalis, I crystalize the images with songs of twisted innocence

On Circe’s Island, Zeus commanding circuits; strife’s surfeit wise Ithacan

Elpenor falling from a Jacob’s Ladder, neck twisted like will before wizard

Lizards upping sizes on your sand-prize gizzards, guts had a steel visitor

Call my knife the lifestealer

The lightstealer, I, nightkneeler

Rindpeeler, fruit names colour

I am the other, Ferrante innerbrother

Pathways to eyrie of the self

Holy guardian angel knighted by El.