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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Mutant Algorithm


MUTANT ALGORITHM 

If only you all truly knew
What a simple mutant algorithm can do
You'd be very frightened too.

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Weird Scenes at the Plantation



Is it all so long ago? Maybe they came from space, maybe from another time or dimension, maybe they were already here, always, and then just burst up through the earth when the time was right. The year was 1955. The memories were all mine but they might as well have been neanderthal for all the difference it could make. You could smell it in the air and I knew when the old man said that there was something very wrong with our lands that he was right. Now we suffer the consequences. The brown earth rises under what strange energy to pass on the message. Now we have historical perspective but little understanding. Under our feet, awake when asleep, never dead, never alive, simply eternal and it's not coming home because it never really left.

Monday, August 17, 2020

Scrap Collage


Industrial skies
Iron and rust
Industry cast offs
Reflected in the price
Of scrap metal.

Icy Blue Nowhere


Somewhere, beyond icy blue
A stream of thought awaits you
And all you have to do
Is clearly think it through
And all you'll have to show
Are the simple things you know.

Potato Sack


Don't worry about test and trace
Don't worry how to mask your face
Don't worry that the government tells tall tales
Don't worry our success is a list of fails

We're OK, we'll get back
We're beautiful
Here's Marilyn in a potato sack
See Marilyn in a potato sack

Don't stress at the daily brief
Don't fret don't suck your teeth
Don't cry when you get bad news
Don't listen if you get the blues

We're OK we're not slack
Rockin' the Corona snacks
Here's Marilyn in a potato sack
See Marilyn in a potato sack

Don't worry if we contradict
Don't worry if the facts don't fit
Don't worry you can't get a test
We'll beat the world and we'll be the best

We're OK soon in the black
We're makin' it
Here's Marilyn in a potato sack
Just like Marilyn in a potato sack

Marilyn in a chlorinated chicken shack
Marilyn's life is a life is a hack
Marilyn in the conga line at the back
Marilyn Monroe in a potato sack.