Firework

I started running. I ran through cities, towns, under subways, up and down railway
embankments, over mountains and desert plains, on and on, into shopping malls and
dark blistered streets

I strode past tower blocks and burger stores, past warehouses, along endless dirt
tracks and hedgegrows, faster and harder, deep into dark pine needle forests, out
across cracked soda fields, past temples and churches, past airports, over reservoirs
and bridges

I kept going, forcing my body onwards along the strobing neon highway, past
jabbering junky bed doorways, past bus shelters and peace parks, past drive-thrus,
bingo halls, megabowls, on and on across luminous I-pod forecourts, across deadly
space-hopper mezzanines, deeper and deeper into the invisible somnambulistic hyper
matrix of the zombie cell phone metropolitan elite

I ran with immortal, supernatural power past housing estates and football stadiums,
swishing through corn fields, through hot desert sand, over endless country lanes,
through slaughter houses and sun lounges, yelling: ‘Come and get with this!’ On and
on past casinos and cloned coffee storefronts, past aching village squares, past shanty
towns and drill halls, past battery farms, rice fields, construction sites, nameless
voodoo sports bars, rock venues, bird sanctuaries, hard and fast over minefields and
tram rails, and old secret burial grounds to soporiferous vampire gods

I ran through tides of dead metronome commuters and brought them back to life
I ran with love in my heart and left a shining plasma trail of diamond wonderwall
tears
I tore down barriers and fought against a clone army of anthropomorphic No Entry
signs
I moved like a remorseless laser scream of uber electric fluid

This was it, I thought. The eternity of motion. Nothing could stop me. I entered VIP
lounges and smashed through exclusion zones, zipped across borders and tore
through firewalls and neutralised scanners and security codes. I ran with this great
train of humanity behind me past rows of rent-a-spot mannequins, past hawk-eyed
corporate banks, past conglomerates and multinationals, past surveillance cams, flash
mobs, acid dolls, wax arcades, on and on past the great droning meta swarms of fabled
automatic golem flesh in the fathomless Tzolk’n night

I blazed across the world. I kept going, driving my body on further and further,
gathering followers wherever I ran. Soon there were thousands, then millions, then
tens of millions, and we became one sprawling amorphous mass of energy consuming
everything in our path. A critical mass had been reached and we exploded in the sky
like a firework which did not burn away, but instead became a permanent feature over
the Earth and shone with the pure effervescence of a new star filled with the high
octane of undying love


Mike Davies
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