The World as written by Martin Amis

My debased art has no place in the academy

That loud rejection followed me like a shadow

One plant they ensured deadheaded before it gathered steam

They were, to say it mildly, unkeen

On my tear-painted snapshots of a Goddess’ rape

By blur-draped wraiths

Our fate I hate to say

Is a thousand year reign of draining, grey rain

The whipcracker God’s gone missing

The World, as written by Martin Amis

Rome’s full of goths, the end of all history

The statues of the Gods are cracked and piss-covered

Waiting to be rubbled, or buried then rediscovered.

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