Alchemisland

Steel by my side slip inside a saloon and join the pasteboards Sawdust thrown on the floorboards to soak up upchuck, lords And ladies pay to be away from such places, I take my place Big blind I keep pace, half stack, soon down to brass tacks Hobnail boots up for grabs, lose them fast…

Hard as nails Hitting dusty trails Riding away on a grey bay, coyotes bay at a marmoreal moon A rock fringed with daisy chains, memorial to those who came before Changed this place pick and hod, we hold you more Worthy of reverence, we are unworthy ancestors, separate From your temperate ways, these are temperate…

At times come out slow as a Fiat with a flat tyre Pipe black firing, press the button for black fire Pedal to metal off into the night Peddler of wares Untiringly inspired, you come out in black tie Attired for my acidic satires, satyrs with lyres By my side plucking high notes, open throated…

Stomach rumbling like Bobby Sands daydreaming of apple crumble As he paints the gaol wall with the shit rubbed into his hands H Block the iron cunted mocker wanted to prove she couldn’t be rocked Let a hero die in a tiny box, a mockery of the political process One wrong move boom, she’d have…

Tendering of owed tallies, debtor’s gaol then a galley to the antipodes Where you will sleep in a hole until you build your prison Which then you will live in without pot to piss in until your bucket is kicked Lashed at the post again, licked for every backtalk, trick and thickness Fucking Micks they…