Tag: alchemy
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I Hate Town
Moons glowering at all of us Spire towering, abhorring us Jutting up like a vast syringe Totem black tar heroin binge Barney’s Laneway don’t go back there Rusty knife boys selling crack there Go another way to go into the Sackville for your nightly Satzenbrau Can’t use names because town is tiny but someone’s husband’s…
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The Boys
Looking fly for the boys Fucking lie for the boys Fucking die for the boys Duck and fire for the boys Go hard for the boys Hoe guard, them toys Look fit with the boys Fuck, lit with the boys.
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Drizzly Day Date Dublin
Lash raining Cab hailing Grips cold railing She’s gold, grailing Near to Grafton Trying to cold read her Taxi metre rocking up like Peter Looks amazing Looks she’s graced with Grace of angels Grips the handrails Like walking steep trails Along they sail Like a shit train even a good date has potential to derail…
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Bankburster
Commerce stilted while high street’s silted More burst banks than Dillinger’s explosives More bankside miracle than the hands of Moses More roses strapped to lamp posts More wool than trapped in lamb coats Across your eyes, that’s my disguise My five fingers venetian blind one eye I’ve always been a hider in closets A closet…
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Someone there/Summoned there
Demons with contorted forms Souls black as aces George Formby faces Lips like week-dead worms Cometh the storms. Lightning rips Light night eclipse Every fern drips Every firm hip Up and about Beware the loon Howling the moon No one hears you shout.