From The Wondrous Burgh Of Eden
Another Angel Falls
Ether sky on Cramond Promenade/ sun sinking into cold darkness/ oil black firth/
carious mouth/ its halitous breath stinging the eyes.
Tiredness in bones & head. The raw, filthy tiredness of chemical entropy.
And the dreams & visions are far away. Over the hills and faraway. This.
This. And that. Cauterised hopes. Pissing on cathartic fire. Cramped
viscera. Ureic secretion. Dyscentric megababble. A toppled tower.
A burnt library. A pile of words. This high. This. This. This & that.
Sun sinking beyond dear green place. Saturated silhouette. Irreverent
reverie. Penumbraic memorababble. A severing of tongues: dissection of
brains. A hundred tribes trampling down the green grass. Shards.
Slivers. The shattering of the glorified glass cow. The almighty
lord, well displeased. The residents, diseased. A thousand plagues
upon their heads. A thousand curses on the turncoat renegade.
Tap once, tap twice. There's no place like home.
Acid tripping thru' Pilton Paradise. Skyscrapers scraping fibres of skin
from the sky. Track marks down gangrenous veins. Empty Eldorado.
Thunderbirds are go. The tough get going. Junked out on the briny Forth.
Vultures circling high above, cutting arcs of stark black rainbow. Unclean
rain silting up the river. The river running past Eve & Adam. A river of
melted black macadam.
Shock sore eyes. Dirty dishes piled high. This high. In my sink of
damaged dreams. Twenty dead salmon in rich deep crimson blood, thrashing
angrily in stainless steel captivity: staring with accusing eyes.
This fish never swam. This tree never grew. This bell never rang.
This puir wee chookie bird never flew.
The waters wash over. Saline detergent. I emerge, less than clean. Sun
sinks down, red & blistered, west of destiny. Beyond the queen's ferry.
Vagina rex. God save her. And on, on into the sallow, slipping, listless,
lapping, unfrothed waters. Spume spewing from unfine oil refineries.
I dip my spent wick. This. That. This & that. This clock goes 'tic toc'.
The sun unwinds, turns back, turns black; and another angel falls.
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