Tag: poem
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Instructions for pulling your life apart in one day (faceful of emergency glassplate to make me look intrepid)
You can have your sins cleared if you pay Sin eater by occupation I’ll give you a name, show you the way There’s a step, we both know you have to take it Unsaid and that way it must remain Until our days are wasted, never speak plain What could be deviously obfuscated Have everything…
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Forcing them to use rare terminology
Fucking more servants than a founding father in the colonies I’m ducking more serpents than infant Hercules, young prodigy Lol not really, took me thirty years Before I had as many readers: blood, sweet and tears split’s even And being eager isn’t enough either You have to bleed, make someone else bleed to get one…
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Heir-watered the now-red waters
Don’t make me cross or cross me Firing across the crossbar sideways like a crossbeam Red beam gleams on your beanie site, like a rubied diadem by a fireside I’m wearing Lacoste beneath an Oi bomber, never without my costume No dossers in the boss room Clay tablets depicting lost runes Weed supply ample, tobacco…
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I hate wafflers
Too afraid to get after it Like a stalker who bottled after putting on his wax jacket Citing inclement forecasts, and generally feeling knackered Had to scoff at your talk of chalk lines and full throttle I’m the Orphan of Kos Got bodies like the Sex Pistols song Par for this course A serious par…
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Crossroad promise (Odin showed himself to me)
I should have been a water diviner Always find where it is hiding Rods cross like rite-potent roads Right potent if you know the right poem to recite By the roadside in sight of His Odious Mightiness Through ode’s dictation signal want of conference In my mad want I became self centred Went with my…