Alchemisland

Day lasting long legs up to neck Pave and bonnet hot enough to fry eggs, scotch bonnet Swanneck colour and elegant Pelican how much her mouth takes There again, counting takings She’s licking together a makings Soothe my bones addled, achings Sprayed hay came from Northern China A system of trainlines and skyflights Railing lines…

Ever since we broke up I’ve been smoking up Eating microwave suppers from Spar, frequenting subpar bars Made art then grew apart like Ricky, Steve and Karl Half the canvas cost this, zeroes sixed Customers making money hand over fist, not short a few quid I’m eating fish fingers they’re eating squid by the shore…

Running the gauntlet of voluntary abuses Never made this type of music before Satan introduced me to it In place of druids, summoned with seminal fluids mutants Fit for shooting crawled abusively from alchemical flasks He came forth last, at last, this realm’s lord and master maskless His task all good’s eradication, I assist without…

Searching scrap and plastic warped to surreality, best in my basket Master demands foolscap notepads full of poems, I get no advance How long they’ve been here equals how long since the plants got fed I don’t trust any of these heads, could be evil, plants or feds Deadheads and ravers, crusties and acid techies…

No crack leftover, no man left sober because resolve is weak Moderation’s all well and good but gratification delay’s Joy fleet as a freight train beaming out Baal fire light Zooming stationless Bismarck to Maine, thence to Belfast Know a guy who hit four banks one day back in ’88 Great chain robbery, he coughed,…