Chatty Cathy

Eager lips loose sink ships, recorder and a repeater

Under orders not to speak to you, you’re the media

You’re the snake in my familia

Haunting me, unwanted familiar

Sniffing after my potential millions.


They’re careful around me, like I’m a man with illness

Perhaps, wrongly, they term me some node of influence

Determining that I am an author of interesting incident

Without antecedent in prospect’s quantity and height

Highted kingly on my birth night, Titans ring me, urth my birthright

It didn’t turn out right, but I saw it written in flames upon the night

That every forward step would be met with venom, strife and trial

Only, defiled to steel, the rare zeal of my close betrayers dismays

I must take haste in taking heads with blades, like blazes, to dissuade them

I am some minister of mayhem in their sight

With the power to make happen

With powdered wig and gavel

Having eaten every wisdom apple that fell into my lap

I don’t cap but I don’t stop them trapping themselves

Not often that I can be accused of examining the mouth of a gift horse

Cannot decide whether I’m babbling or travelling as the muse bids

If there are lessons they are hidden, if there’s sweetness it’s bitter

Christ’s lips soaked in vinegar.

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