Alchemisland

My foolscap inked with images of tarot fools walking blithely to cruel fates

Three sixes in the date, move daintily past the images of saintly faces

Their names given unto places where they displayed a Christly grace

Ill-befitting such a realm, where murder and rape come easy as japes

To a grape-loosened man of reputed greatness, the dirty ends of lanes

Where junkies pollute their veins, bodies and brains, eyes sunken

Like Atlantis after the sea has drunk its full, drunks spill out at midnight

Eager for a fight then some taco fries, ask the taximan was he busy tonight

No nitelink running tonight, bound to provoke violence, all boats risingtide

Her body a bubbling cauldron of what’s possible, tossing like a schooner at Charybdis

Someone ripped out my rib, cryptic mythmaking, what’s made arrives unashamedly naked

Aoife not quite Eve, somewhere between Lilith and Sheba

John the Baptist doesn’t flee the cleaver, served like meat

Plate had never been cleaner, rendering unto Caesar

The rended flesh of vile deceivers, all believers must be smoked out of Eden

Someone tried to crib this, rip me off, rob the crib then be off

I ripped off his skin when I caught him, removed fingernails, hobbled and left crippled

Let you live to send out ripples, your troubled flesh serves as a triple warning

To anyone even considering massing forces, I ban all gatherings of citizens

Without warning, from this morning all unapproved meetings are illegal proceedings

And will be dealt with harshly on the presumption of anti-party behaviour

A year at most for being a rapist but for you it’s red tape and ruinous jail

For smoking a bit of hay, for being late to pay but they name the prices

Always pricy close to priceless like an unseen Picasso from a Nazi attic.