Expected Spectacle

The future, crabs in a bucket 

Oil sludges, moving sluggish

Through city stormdrains

Shimmering puddles

Pulsing Rome cloak purple and daffodil

John Brunner Summer 

With Blade Runner weather 

Muckers going numb, going under 

Their suicidal thunder spin cycles the towers 

Themselves peopled by psychos 

You know them, a certain type 

Who might go there, who might blow 

Who’d want to show ‘them’

On seedy forms

Reading dubious alt histories 

A mind littered with bits of myth

A few too many movie scripts 

The fraudulent begins eclipsing what is

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