Saturday, April 29, 2023

Doomsaying At The End Times

arbitrary coppers buttons 
police in wool coats 
going through the waste papers 
masts of the ship straight gloat 
float roasts in the GOAT's throat
if a boot don’t crush it 
toasted boasting to cheers 
recourse absent spine and it’s
prison bars for the fairest of them all 

we again started gone again
and the right stuff makes its way 
to wet lips and throat of the featurette 
we’re bringing cheese to the party opiate 
of the masses right in the sliced package wreckage
flaccid mad grab-assed around haven’t found it yet
like a plane that never leaves the ground 
we cough and fight until the sun goes down 
feverish with too much energy to spare 

it feels like the sun 
a hair’s width away from blasting in 
making forests into toothpicks cinders 
the bark of one tree makes aspirin 
another heats a house another builds one
and the tithe we pay is 
not enough air to breathe 
pump that gas up into the sky 
why cry when we’ll all die at the same time 
everybody holding hands and singing songs 
to the masses the masses 

he passes horrified 
too long until the blonde moon sets 
on the graveyard passes
when everything passes for a graveyard
the trees bow low in the courtyard 
ready set go

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