Tag: neuralchemy
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Farlorn
Feeling feelingless, she sags like a cut strings mannequin A framed picture of a happy memory she regrets, never trust a man again A woman’s skin, that woman, thin but far from thin skinned the old workboot Stretching leg to locker, hooks a prayer bead on her foot Pillow at her belly, comfort of mass,…
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Doing Road
Eats road like Cormac McCarthy’s shredder, goes like a V2 My arrival causes stress, like an imminent #metoo More options than two twenty sided dice More waiting holes than household fulla mice Veto over your life, a Don, only bam from my acme mallet Junkie viking funeral on a Tesco palette Screeching halt, landing hard…
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Last Cathedral
Green droplets of soup Summer logic Haze which is not mist, July’s height Collecting tree secretions in cups and vials Collecting days in twine belted files Distilled experience supremed in a phial No more Cathedrals will be built Says what about imminent return Vaccinated against the possibility, immunitising eschaton No more Davids shall be freed…
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The Camps
Machine apartheid the rule of law Encampments of ostracised women, who serve machines Hair tossed, smell of gasoline on her breath, oil drying on her inner thigh Machinecest, mother of the new diseases With fannies like jellied eels after an hour beneath a hairdryer Charles Babbage erotic nightmare in a tent Using his teeth, upon…
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Future is Thick
Cruel gangs bisect the turf Skinahans lot in the Beacon South Quarter Scartel everything between Aungier Street and the Liberty Stone Liberated from a Church Normandy named, sitting before boss’ throne A symbol to which fealty is offered Young lads swearing they have no skin in the game Cheffed up, found eyeless, no skin hung…