Alchemisland

Like my bank balance was less than what it was Selling it like I was destined Places you wouldn’t send a delegate, full of indelicate rascals akin animals Full of odalisques trysting for profit, profligates and whoresons, gambolers On the walls of this place, caked dirt smudged into a resin like an unguent It hugged…

I was on a bender  It was half eleven I’d had twelve hennies  Two Heinos and a half Got sick coming up on that Hacked up the bad, green as gas Chunder chaser Coke and Jack Surfaces began blending  Like newfound yellow Made in alchemical melding, elemental wedding A melting pot ’twas, place hopping  Red…

Pumpkins on the porch  Kids in the front Tortured corpses full of holes Stuffed in the oven Smell of rotten something A slumped form A lump struggling inside a burlap sack Treat or treat you ask  Having tapped my glass Asked I give answer  I am the darkness the cancer  The black eyed shark dancer …

Therapist handed me a new angle  New thing being thankful I won’t be wrangled By dangling carrots  I’m beneath a lamppost  Blinkered horses before sable chariots  Passing soul-laden, away to chaos unchanging Argued forward by paddycapped overseers Zealing crops, like dealers mopping up their own drug stock Cross but no charring  Prince Charming with acid…