Tag: apocalypse
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Vanity ending
Dull sanity’s surfeit blanches planned child planet, and all vanity Vanishes as gleaming spires millennia highering are lain as Atlantis Below below cold cod-cursed Atlantic, with Hy-Brasil and the Yanks Seven years before the apocalypse, Ireland will sink in mercy to the Irish More frequent dreams of a red Mersey screaming, gleaming slaughterine Sun’s horses’…
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Night’s prince
I kiss my fist before I swing to hit, hot as Ifrit’s imprints my indents I am the night prince, everytime I hit print the cyan misses Sion’s missiles arising like aureate beams upon the birth of Christ Manger for a berth, saviour and lordling of all earth among mangy animals Chortling currently at a…
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Escaping drudgery
You must understand my need to escape It is like I have been raped everyday for a decade This job has utterly debased me No case can be made for it Is it me or it which cannot be saved Dismayed to find it me. I am at Ballard’s exhibition of atrocities, numb to the…
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Last left living
I’ve got racks and bands racks and bands Livestrong bracelets outlive the land After the nukes land Whose hand shadowed the burgundy button Land sliding to inhuman climes Life cannot sustain, lung-raping acid rains It’s only cockroaches and plastic bands from Athenry to Atlanta Unmoving city full of noises, pie full of phantoms When do…
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Stillorgan
Looking at her aura like I’m watching a film in the Stillorgan Ormonde Coming out, orienting finding the tip of Viscount Lord Allen’s Obelisk Walking through Glenalbyn, snapshot memories Old photo album perambulated Shuttered swimming pool where I won my only ever sports medal Once cut my foot getting into the pool on the metal…