Alchemisland

Dusty baton, hatches long battened

Hard on from her talent

Hoping she holler

Pussy got dollars took a fistful like I’m Clint Eastwood

Licking the clit while she eats wood, greasy with loveblood

Money in a City Swift kit bag dad bought me in fifth class

Used to carry togs and goggles to Glenalbyn, swimming class

Won gold in a gala, only bust of Pallas moment, Darien peak clean sweep

Inclement weather shivering

City held together with tape and visible staples

One of the worst ever cases of bad neighbours

Britkilling caped crusaders saved us, Gay Byrne

Versus Goliath on pay per view, green gloves bet him black and blue

Low pressure power shower barely cleanses, screen like fogged lenses

Lending the room the air of tropics, exotic, it’s hot as the Attic plains

I watch dirty water circling the drain, bathwater out with baby

Wondering am I crazy, deranged but too lazy to act, good actor

Holding back this grin rictus, abiding by strictures to live amongst you

Lacking human emotions, I am the bitter potion which sets to motion

Machinery of demise, biding time for March’s ides, toga hides my knife

Besides stabbed him behind, mind fixed to myths

Minefield don’t mind blisters

My own mind I flee, like I got too scared in the pictures

1970s premiere of Exorcist

If I wasn’t a satanic urchin I’d join a church, become a Cistercian

My true God is scaled like a sturgeon

My dark heart’s suited suitor suitable soothing

From the world’s horrible womb

Opened by a wordful surgeon, magma outsourcing

Like turgid ructions lurid virgin earth ten ages before creation’s first day

I was scared but now am careless, Samson amongst hairless heretics.

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Jealous as Hera

My one is a rare kind a rare find a black diamond unshining

She was found lying, crying out for rescue, deep inside a coal mine

Striations marking the reign of now nameless fallen nations line the walls

She stood taller, a foot taller than the tallest miner, her lips shriner hat red

Dread is the father of all phantoms

A leaf’s shade set to dancing by a zephyr westmoving

Sets fear’s machinery to moving

The tooths entoothing, the horrorshow ensuing

Proves that life is simply a movie

Aseries of selfmade pictures moving in seamless illusion

Elusive seams must be outteased

Life’s keys are writ on dreams, quill of the queen

In cursive scripts obscenes which the nightsleeping

Kneel before in mute adoration

Her followers blot out the forecourt tar.

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Waiting on eggs, feel like Jake the Muss’ friends

More like Jake the Peg, minus antipodean nonce

Looks like Gerry Adams, minus aplomb and few bombs

Mangling the map I’m gonna gerrymander to get elected

King of the ends, you’ll get a chair that’s electric

Get the Scalextric for Christmas with no batteries

Haven’t gone to the chipper, but got sausage battered

Night out in Slatterys, lashing pints down until slaughtered with slappers

Openly selling drugs these thugs need kneecapping

Bring back that; not the rappers

Using chocolate wrappers for gear

Nice whip like a cruel overseer steering by

Not clear who is the driver through illegal tint

But size of it dick must be thin.