Tag: dystopia
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outatnightfoxwolf
For the taking of oaths, I select my best coat Out in the cold like an hobo Blowing hands like an Oboe Walking upright, primate homo Blade Runner night Sideways rain spraying Lanes lit with neon signs Where android odalisques languish Casement smudged with handprints Badge says hi I’m Diamond Atlantis How can I hasten…
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PREPARED2DYE2DAYN02MRW
Let me die prepared Like a Dark Souls player My affairs taken care of Hair combed and oiled Shoes a good clean pair Going up that final stair Void of potential recommencement I stumble upon the threshold And never become a legend In my Lemony Snicket phase Endless series of unfortunate days Olympiad Irish lads…
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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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Syphoning gas to give her a fighting chance
She persuades me to let her sage me before leaving If it could save you and I didn’t, it would grieve me Full sore, pray leeway A spraying haze unabating, she an Aaron Bathes me in miasmic armour Dispelling harm by charm She insists we wear amulets of her devisement Eyes painted onto shell mottes,…
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Winter criminal
No need of a bally anymore No new CVs in Templemore Peeling season upbraiding Henge vengeful Door to dark nebulae Raised in dawn ages In hate’s mist wraithed Sore-cheeked queen reigning, breath razor’d Climes brumal, brutal inclemency encrystals Galilean glassed voluminous, sinking vessels Fatal night to be homeless, Gelid flaying aeons of ice replaying Direwolves…