A Wave, Tipping OverA Poem by Brett HernanI am empty Listen to the plan: "All red teams for take off are sent." On telephone, "Get as far away as you can! Now!" No emergency reprieve. Anthematic introduction of a wheel Opening fast black tubular 1928 bicycle rubber We're going to take back With the non- denominationally inoffensive slogan, 'With the, 'Hope of Tomorrow', on our side'. Rows of floral tributes shaped with a white rose icing, trimmed into pedestals that barrier the streets to The plush felts of slightly bruised rose petals strewn along the highway in the specific want of a better death Unable to think I am empty In the abandoned carnival's haunted hall of mirrors, Busted dirty glass old dried blood dust bone dry interior chambers of long since dead now people's syringes ghost train green charcoal stains from where one night were projected upward real flames glowing light up eyes and black elastic dangling spiders and bats that, really, touch your head. Throwing multi-coloured confetti. Eating multi-coloured popcorn balls on sticks. Back, amongst the toothbrush pen trees, and shaving razors, dragging, dripping the red ink, upon every morning's after shower shave's daily diary's page, page, undelete. Error. Undeletable. The electronique instinct self destruct is de-rigeur Page delete. Loading up. A session's worth of ink-filled, gold nib-tipped fountain pen cartridges into as many magazines with a 3500 round per second capacity as conceivably available, Just like the ones we paid for and the military have most definitely used on disliked children. With a 3500 round per second capacity As the barrels spin round Freon cooled Slugs aimed at the undelete repeat inverse collection model critiqued frowned upon, found forlorn, and oblique, by all, free-thinking opponents of, 'The inequitable status, untenable for the continuance of all life upon this planet' model, whereby, the common man, is forced, (through circumstance such as the rise of the cost of a tin of baked beans (and everything else) to collect capital to underwrite assets of the inevitably, extremely wealthy. The continuance of repetition Hiding in the hay soft corners of barns sunlight filled skies missing boards from the roof rafters of orange red yellow sap stained soaked timber beams showing up the harsh, black tusks of splinters shadow strokes under the bright white light you guessed it right pointed descending like the lines on the national unhealthiness register. The unfinished line On the grid graph Hidden in the pile at the bottom of the locked bottom desk drawer, filled by sunlight. Like the curve of a knife blade's edge. A wave, tipping over. By anarcho-capitalist, free economy agrarian masses en mass demonstration on repeat In ever growing circles with clenched fists and slamming feet aimed at the Aristocrats with a pocket seated chihuahua warming each of their soft, white gloved hands in their bear skin, wild ermine mink, albino spotted quoll and ring-tailed possum pelt pockets. Elasticized by a newly developed method patented by The Koaw Corporation International in 1973 That's enough of that, Boom! That's enough of that, 'yeah'. Hot water bottles cradled by sides and stomach with a chihuahua on either side resting, pressing, their hot, bare bellies. One across the soles of the feet. The worst words you ever heard Repeat in perpetuity on repeat. A friend's request from the single still standing lily of the valley stood in an immeasurable expanse of darkness. © 2017 Brett Hernan |
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Added on July 7, 2017 Last Updated on July 15, 2017 AuthorBrett HernanHobart, Tasmania, AustraliaAboutLow-resolution sample only. Born 1968. All of the images accompanying each of these written works are my own. (Except that one of the guy putting a flower into a soldier's rifle barrel!) more..Writing
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