Rise up - gather your weapons
Hamlet is ready
Hamlet is ready
Ophelia is pickling
two witchety grubs
two witchety grubs
glossy green bottles and jars -
their watery fate
their watery fate
sky flickering fluorescent
quick white lightening strikes
quick white lightening strikes
Mediterranean shoes
On deck step softly
On deck step softly
The deep sea's complicit, and
cigarette buts float
cigarette buts float
face down; small wasted bodies
crowding the ocean
crowding the ocean
--the ignorant Sasquatches
crowding the ocean
crowding the ocean
chanting in butterfly stroke
- fish damply waking
- fish damply waking
waking out of a river,
creek all the same
creek all the same
a ferry leaps out water
prances the surface
prances the surface
Pantomime damsels beware
of marshmallow spells
of marshmallow spells
Beware of fool's gold and lamps
without light, without ...
without light, without ...
... germ warfare analysis.
To sicken is worse.
To sicken is worse.
black peppercorns scatter like
scree on a hillside
scree on a hillside
In dependent's days, we're there,
Watching out for them.
Watching out for them.
In dependence, days are safe,
All's provided for.
All's provided for.
Independence days come fast.
Soon, they're on their own.
Soon, they're on their own.
Independence Days, they're here.
Rejoined family.
Rejoined family.
The Eiffel Tower in blue
wipes the blue away
wipes the blue away
Parisian sunset's a
shocking pink xray
shocking pink xray
Bitter espresso, croissant,
In cold brasseries.
In cold brasseries.
Warm spun silkscreens realise that
slender threads set fast
slender threads set fast
Shop girls march on the streets, but
quickly arrested
quickly arrested
Shop girls march in the streets, their
banners broken ... burned
banners broken ... burned
Bread crumbs - pecked clean from hungry
roads. Shameful birds bow.
roads. Shameful birds bow.
Eclipse of black buttons, black
wheels, splashing puddles.
wheels, splashing puddles.
Gorged on saki and fruit cake
she commenced sewing
she commenced sewing
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