desecration

-

the girls jostle for attention
performing teenage tricks
laughing at some untold joke
saving and spewing laughter
like lava

the audience of one
concentrates
on walking correctly
lest they make fun
soldierly erect
barely containing
white-hot outrage
not at the photograph
showing the rabbi
and swastikas daubed
on white marble graves
but at the fact
that this matters more
walking correctly
comforting finery
public display
lest they make fun

quietly leaving
trampling daisies
canter to gallop
the audience of one
breathes again
an unseen tree root
forces to fly
into the night
the indelible
spray paint can



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Hard Boiled - 2019 Rewrite

-
Handful of sweets like teeth launched straight into his open mouth makes you wince: head flipped back -  trilby glued on - and all over in no time. Back to the broken nose you first saw; and the glare. Looking around won't help -  how nerves work is his living. His thoughts aren't many but they're stark and made for this. Have to hope something happens out of a dream: He loses interest and leaves. Close your eyes like life won't end.
Read more

Blankness

-
This blankness, often dizzying background, Is never the absence of all the stuff desired Which would be easier. It's hill start pressure, plump with anticipation. What happened then? What didn't? The layers of the record are weathered away Until a backbeat warms the harshest vocal, The same word ringing out forever. And we didn't see it coming. There was nothing to see.
Read more