Still

Watching

Dark coats march

Through my home town

Barking in old tongues

And strangling the red sky

With whipping flags, painted black

Icons of their dreadful rule hang high

A silent taunt to the remaining few....

“I love you, Kevin! I think I’ll always love you, no matter what happens!” David shouted up at Kevin who was now leaning over his balcony to see who was making such a obnoxious declaration at four in the morning.

“David? What the fuck are you doing?” Kevin said, the reply coming out as a stifled yell as to not alert his neighbours to the bizarre scene.

“I’ve come to declare my love to you! I’ve...

Wake up sir

Come quickly

To our fair city

To the adorned square

Where you fought your last battle

And gave so dearly

They have made monuments to you sir

Look how the sun catches your cheek

They tell me it’s gold

Brought from overseas

And listen to their songs there

How your name carries

This does not please you sir

To war and conquer and be left with peace

But that is how it must always be

Do n...

I’m the guy who does the pictures on cigarette packs Of fathers blowing smoke in their kids’ faces

And sometimes lungs all tarred and black

This job has me going some wonderful places

To morgues and to the doctors

Or some small-town dentist

To gawp at the teeth of a washed-up rocker

Or look at some organs with the mortician’s apprentice.

I’m the guy who gives you the warning

In big capitals like ...

Medicine man came to town

When all were stricken down

Bodies riddled with hidden wounds

Dressing their heads with crimson crowns

Medicine man sold his goods

And vowed to cured us where we stood

Sending us into painless sleep

To rest in the old dead woods....

I searched for the culprit of those steps that lead so neatly to that retreating tide. Each a stamp that betrayed it, the drowned thing that visited our world. I reached into my jacket pocket and fingered the the grip of the pistol that weighed heavily there. Could I do the deed if given the chance? Kill that thing that wrought such evil upon my family?

The questions were many that passed through...

Hamster shuffled up to the podium and peered over it to look at the sparse audience that had gathered. Rabbit was nursing a cloudy pint in one paw, and loosely holding a smouldering cigar in the other – making small efforts now and then to look over at the stage to feign interest. Goldfish, who had just been wheeled into the auditorium in her glass bowl, was swimming in anxious circles, stopping o...

They peel away like banana skins

From kettles, cupboards and even bins

Bewitched or maybe just bored

Their shadows were freed

From mundane existence

The largest of them did lead

Them in dark resistance

And the night they adored

Covered the day

Giving way

For the shades to play....

The stranger spoke with hushed command

His words struck their minds like barbed whips

Summoning hate that none could withstand,

Not with all their soldiers and all their ships

Nor the golden gates that shut them out,

Could they halt the violent tide

Rising at the signal of a distant shout

Never to relent, never to subside.

Red rivers filled the gutters before long

And sullied idols were melted dow...

Go fish

Grow legs and arms

Pick up the beer glass

And do someone harm

Before they get the same idea.

Drink the air

Fill your gills

Draw lines in the sand

And count your kills

There's quite a few of them.

Sneak and prowl

Listen to radio chatter

Plot your revenge

For your comrades in batter

Who fill their bellies.

Topple the government

Gut the cities

And when they beg at your feet

Grant them no pity...