Ratcheting of seizure-moves
Across the doomy dancefloor
Blips and beats burning in our starry dynamos
laced through our spun-glass flow
The universal retina gored, flash-frozen whores descending the staircase of timespace
In a race to join the bottom feeders
We are fissures of men, vending bad medicine
The gaps in our gene-spliced minds morphing together in synesthetic waves
Grouped together in caves
we scrawl our appalling mysteries on the wall
Staking the mythic beast
with arrows of microplastic disease
Plato came a-calling
and called our ways appalling,
a pall on the earth that gave us birth
A shock to the systems of a downed saucer
we rock on our haunches
reaping the raw
holiday of decay
Driving our play beyond the body map
deep time elapses as a stellar footprint
carving snowed in angels
on the tombs of the atomic race
Alex S. Johnson is an anthologist, editor, journalist, teacher, author and publisher (Darkest Wine Media). His books include The Junk Merchants: A Literary Tribute to William S. Burroughs and We Are Gregor: A Disability Rights Anthology (forthcoming from Nocturnicorn Books).
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