Tag: expression
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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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Wolf among you
Wolf in the Nikes with a peasant-frightening psyche Bars make you jump, cars scaring pheasants off the curb My mind strewn, rune-carved pages Another planet’s Book of Matthew Gaining dishonour extolling extracanonical apocryphal gospels Rarest codices available, ancient psalters from life’s cradle Cracked like magma-strifed gryke-ridden ash plains Below hellflame spilling volcanoes Eat a pan…
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SPURNED VENUS
Months now since sex Ourselves often vexed Neglecting jealous Venus What legs sheath stays between Kept uncoupled mór capall destriers Make them bold Marengos open air As any who would repair what are termed tears In reality’s fairness should prepare themselves for Further awareness of a world distinctly uncaring. Hera hunts lovers making gello ghosts,…
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Trials, Tribulations, Trillions of Miles Yet
I’m a blind man and until Jason’s argonauts cast nets was highted mad saying, “Harpies stole my bread.” Red as yesterday’s paper, red as toothclaw Red as a cutter’s right-hand knifehand kinch the knifeblade dismayed mulling over rough beast Yeats’ Buck Bethlehem Mulligan’s word beastly Red as raptor’s bloodstained dewclaws Red as Somme soil, red…