Alchemisland

My words from tuna depths are unfortunately tuneless and tone deaf

They get no audience, no applause, no interest

Divested of consumers, the esculent expires

I’m a pile of rumours, secrets and spies

Not a jay stirs without my foreknowledge of its flight

I am the referee and the fighter, holding a whistle and two weight titles

I’m not afraid to get physical, violent though I’m brittle

Up off my back by bridging, lift your fridge weight, inconsiderately raking eyes

Whatever I have to do to survive, it’s not about thriving here at the end of time

Not quite ancient of days but seen a few and I’m bored pale of it

A blood coloured comet I caught the tail of it, became a sky sailor

Sticktoitiveness, pritt stick mick, more stick than Vlad the Impaler

Befriend the jailor, freed me on execution day before the hangman came

Who can blame him, I’ve got a tongue of flame and, I pray, righteous claim

That wasn’t me you saw yesterday dressed as a wasp stinging a facsimile of you

That wasn’t me in the Saw mask swapping shots running away in knee-high black boots

Back at the safety of the swamp smoking wonky blunts with Donkey

With Dante haunting the harrowed in hell’s unhallowed halls, trespass unlawful

Volcanoes smoking like villains’ cigars, like the overturned cars of movie stars

Barge through your sitting room, premier showing of the live action movie Cars

Pixar how I toy with you, fix a period to your story

Disassembled Mr Potato Head, in bits how I store you

No need to dissemble how much I scorn you

The time now is for temper and force, horned helmets youths leaving their computers

Taking to the streets with conspiracy theories and six shooters, safe entriangled bermuda

They cannot tabulate my movements, concealed like a devil’s deal, active shooter

Every lunar equinox, tear out of my jocks to run as a wolf with black foxes

Broke into the copshop and looted the evidence boxes, a defrocked priest

Helped grind off my manacles, gotta hand it to him, take a handful of hair and do him

No one can know my face, otherwise they can prove it.