Next week I’m due to speak
At an event
But you won’t hear a peep
Out of me
You’ll have to guess
What I prepared
Swarm in like bees
Fold up the chairs
Get on your knees
I got a firearm now freeze
I got a firearm unfreeze
Let me do as I please
In the event of an event
In the event of an event
In the event of an event
Throw your head between your legs
Surely now? I said
Surely now? I read
Backed by the finest dictatorships
Surely now, let rip
While I feel no strain
No strain at all
Feathers board the plane
And take flight
Risk Assessment Squads
Are on standby
Alice shares the weight of my hand
Soft, fleshy, therapeutic
Quicksand
She feels no strain at all
And I feel no strain at all
No strain, no change, no escape
At all
Inching only towards what should be
Anything resembling furtherance
A standing ovation every morning
Is loud and I’m hearing
And seeing
Either way I’m leading
I am lost
I am lost
Watered by weathers warmed by bushfires
My soul will unfold on an incline
I’m teething I’m healing I’m free and I’m fine
It’s earnest honest urgency honestly
Angels love me - they’re hoping to be with me -
Breed with me
But either way I’m leaning
I am slumped
Up until I’m even
I am odd
Even when we’re loving
Is it love?
Is it love?
The rising moan
Of a conch shell
A cloud of fire ants
Whisper
Are you well?
Do you mean well?
We know you dream
Of poetry
You have not seen
Even once
You’ve got no charm
Nothing that yields
The man who crawls
Through muddy fields
Is less fanatical than you
To the left
And the right
White wires falling
Out of our ears
In the dark camera light
A location where
relations disappear
You are
The white hot hub
Of everything dear
Procrastination’s in my bones
A biro leaking in the pocket of my jeans
We left it too late to be sure
We left it too late to be free
But you are a private club
I’m a VIP
You are the one I love
Always will be
Well, probably
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