Saturday, June 7, 2008

Lights in the sky
catharine wheels
Fog horns
Afternoon. Glazed Light.
sugar deserts.
cockroach party.

Grey-blue sedimenta of receding distance,
layered to horizon,
Livid sepulchres
        livid with sun death

An embittered Personal Shopper in a rather distinguished department store
deliberately offends her well-heeled client,
selecting
        for his inspection
only the cheapest,
        gaudiest
                garments

"and this sir,
        in an affordable cotton,
polyester mix
stylish and modern,
enlivened with an
understated
floral
motif"

Pete Boggs.
        Fabians, Fashionistas, Quaffers.

Sky,
blue on the window glass
Vortex of birdsong
          spiralling

Oberon
          Deoderant
Flutter of wind.

Craven Images
        Moon Mining
Extract the Moon Minerals.

fabricator of chimney pots
fornicators and lolligaggers
lip-synchers,
Prominent Ezekiels,
fantails,
        anteaters
            fritillaries
                capers
anchovies

      Viscous Pilate
            Meteorites
                Putrid Volcanoes
                      Pus Flows

Fraudulent ticket inspectors extract fines for improper footwear,
surly demeanour,
slovenly deportment,
scurf,
general air of moral degradation....

fabulations of ineffectual whimsy,
mangroves,
      crocodiles
Swamp Fairs
      fetes of derring-do....

Foragers
        Hunters
Submerged gods,
      tangled
          in seaweed
    tied to seabed.

Birds
      singsong as sun sets

templums for demented rituals,
hidden on hillsides
in land, barren and inhospitable

SCREAMING SCIMITARS!
        Walrus Rising
              Piper Dawn.

Crickets in yellow grass
      Ant Foment

MANTRAS OF MALICE!
        Calgary Apes.

Proteus.

              Stuffed Albatross
                    in
              Curiosity Shoppe

vomit streets
          turgid backwaters
Prittlewell
          Knights of Malteasa

Fat Mantis - Velvet Yurts

Mushroom Vol-au-vants
        delerious waterfall
river ribbons
        vagrant flowers

Showdown at sunrise
      eager dawn
vagrant flowers

(in the general's venerable vestible etc)

Captain of indutry
Media Baron
Land Lord

Venerable disease
Nostril Root

Monkey spasm
        Dumplings of Indusrty

Bromide Wreaths

Victims of Industrial Accidents
display wounds like badges of honour,

"lost that thumb there,
didn't even notice it was gone
till lunch break,
I was working that hard"

"I wouldn't care if I lost a hand
I'm not missing my targets"

Venetian Courtesans
symbiote.
          soft white quagmire

Wren
        in honeysuckle hideaway

Robot World
          Machine Park

        pickled in industrial accidents

uniform
        rectangles of light
office boxes
        banks of computers and swivel chairs

Office Riot!

Team Leader Hung by the Necktie!

H.R concede situation 'difficult'

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice one, Luke.