Filthdawn

Damaged sky everycolour

Buttery and smudged 

Fudged utterly

Hues so lovely

Pastels so eye-floodingly wondrous 

Could only signal some end’s beginning

Night frightening and bright 

Night, a lid, shattered

Like a glass tortoise sent warward

Revealing the home of the law 

In broad, raw technicolour

Like a hawaiian shirt some fat cop wore

Red flaring here, like a good hit

Or a bloodstained glasslamp lit within

Pink haunting camply

The low cloud cemetery 

Where wispy runts sandwich, 

Languishing until they vanish.

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