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| THE HANDSTAND | APRIL-MAY2008 |
12 hours is too long to spend in the Aerlingus terminal: Snow flakes falling gently Through holes in the corrugated tube Outside the world is bright and shiny We're all inside, farting, clumping, watching From islands of silence We've all passed through electric one way doors Into each others lives Walk by the openings of the toilets, There's that familiar ancestral smell As they line up to shit or pee Fertility Goddesses grin lasciviously Lips puled back over blackened buck teeth Waiting to give virgin birth to more bald men Of the ill star whose insufficiency is marked By the smell of beer from their mouths And aftershave on their skin Here, the limitless contempt and stoic intolerance of a tabloid culture is always on the lookout for a headline made flesh. Tabloid spirits guide their eyes in hopeful suspicion -, 'save the children' - yes, form them into a wearisome reiteration on the edge of nothingness and death... When the realization that the exact nature of my guilt can't be easily ascertained, the eyes and faces recede back into indifference. Now it's my turn to smile... ***************************************** Friday Lamia. Green skinned, slimmed, slithering serpentine Of un-earthly foulness clamps around an imprisoned Platanus The demiurge is helpless Furious cthanonic sisters shriek and dance 'round the tree Burning hashish and illuminating Lamia with their mobile phone thrysoi Texting fiery but impotent curses at her Babies crawl in the mud, eating worms and soil Their smiles drive the three sisters deeper Into rhythms of loathing rebukes A careless tit visits branch, leaf, and flower of a nearby cherry tree The dancers take malevolent notice And snapping the birds wing in a cloud of feathers Smear the tit's blood on their lips Lamia whispers to the sisters with a venomous tongue Then lets fly a terrible howl and a fetid smell As the febrile Meaneads dance the dance of destruction The Demiurge waves his hands in a fit of panic and tries to lift himself from the bed But nothing can succeed in this cracked thin membrane of reality So he can only writhe and twist in the feathers with the broken bird. |
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