Gods

 In the North, In the North

The Gods stood firm

Legs as fast as stone

Look on my works ye mighty and dispair

They seem to say

Just desert sands that blow remain

 

And People walking in their multiudes

Come to pay their respects

The dog cries

Of thunder shimmer

Across the blue oasis

And all of time seems

To glimmer there

In an instance

Of standing

Waves

Two possible futures

Split

In one he walks again

In another crubles to dust

This is the fate of every dictator God

That ever stood

In winter running

 In Winter running through the past

What lives are these, these lives that last?

And turn fresh leaves into the grass

What lives are these, these lives that last?

In summer, blossom crowns the crows

And all black death goes rolling home

When bones are dug and bonanzas known

What lives are these that rest in stone?

In winter running through the spring

Time's tap runs fast, what joy life brings

But in these days of autumn glass

I see darkly, dimly how all things pass

In winter running through the trees

Brave squirrels defending terroritries

And crouching ducks waddle down the lawn

As I walk out soon just past dawn

In winter running summer's sand glass

Hours, minutes, seconds pass

But I count no grains

For no grain lasts

Except the truth, yet no shadows it casts

In these winter paths

 In these winter paths

Where I wind from summer's laughs

The kiss of the wind versus the scarfs

All along these winter paths

In these winter paths I see my life 

In chandelier staffs

And coloured calfs on rolling hills of green

The ocean like a memory of a film scene

But real to real I had a head telegraph

Who told me sned the branches

Of the pines like giraffes

They bow their heads

Then nod as if at me to laugh

In these winter paths

In these winter paths

Britain

 You who hide behind your job's place

The security of position

 What are you waiting for?

Your own souls are dying

You have surrounded yourselves

In the fat and grease

To protect you from the from the Viking hoards

Who come pillaging at your door

You may pay them off

With all your riches

Protect yourselves

From war

Or real risk

You who

Fatly waddle

Down your streets of pleasant peace

Hollow art

 A picture of you is a sketch at best

A portrait I guess

To capture your soul

Or to exhibit your beauty

Now who is this picture

Is it you?

No for you have changed moved on, grown old

The picture remains forever young

And in the eye of the beholder

Becomes whatever he or she believes you to be

But not the real you

Just the picture of you

That superficial brush stroke 

The work of light play

Shadow and contrast

The movement of your flesh

Some ideas

That attach us to our own flesh

So what becomes of your picture?

It is consumed and absorbed by the viewer

It becomes a body given flesh

By the eating

The cannibalizing

We have become the cannibals now

Having gorged on instagram, we are walking albums

If not in our heads, in our eyes

In our nervous systems

Changed irrevocably by the humanity of flesh

Where is the democracy of flesh

No it is a thing without choice

Feasting on the ever present, omnipotent, inexhaustible

Stream

So turn it off,

In a flash you can dream

Whale killer

 The crime of cetacean murder

Whether by whale or dolphin

Can be summarized in one way only - guilty

Or more informally:

- You did that on porpoise

Back slapper

 Back slapper

get back in line

Backslapper gonna make you mine

Do you the things that I want you to

Back slapper

You gonna slap me black and blue

Kindness never killed the cat

Curiosity did that

You keep slpping all them backs

There gonna back you in a corner 

Gonna lay you out flat

Catnapper on the pay of the man

Painstaker you gonna carry the can

Rain wrapper gonna drink your span

Slam dunker in the holiday van