when the riddy is astern
the valley of colne
and the vehemence of poverty
runs from the shores upland
when that tide is on the upturn
and the spectre of revolution
rising from its mire pools
and the estates is straining
like muscled tension
i
see the ghost of heads and arms
smuggling silent guns across
the misty morning borders
between sanity and the tenement blocks
in
what will become a violent rebellion
born from the drug littered stairwells
and damp alleys of fermenting ill and discontent in these
depression times that overthrows the stupid lays of order an
upheaving of the lard and the slick and the political fuck a
bromidal cleansing of those concrete sores
there is a particular judge
a
blubbery blueberry jello of a man
with a spiteful disdain
that goes beyond callous
in
his corrupt assuation
and its arse licking
furthering the interests of the state
ive seen the colour of its tongue
i
know where he lives
and as a few and i round the house
i
can see him half running, half waddling wailing no nos as i aim
my hand gun first i shoot him in the leg which half snaps he is
lying on the floor his wet squid like face beating and frantic
his twisting in the slow catherine wheel of panic i am handed a
baseball bat i slowly beat him with the long swing of vitriol in
revenge taking as much pleasure in each dull thump as in the
great alive elation of the kill it is soon to be his hands a
pulp his arms and legs are cracked and matted misshapen to his
trousers but not his head i want him to feel the final moment i
want him to be the symbol torch and flame i set him alight we
meant to use the petrol as furnace for the larger houses here in
cassio but this is a personal emblem and it is a truly worthy
goodbye the charring pain seared grotesque across his forid face
and the ritual of the smoke and his blistered eruption makes a
disgusting but apt pall to his bigoted judgement his fat wet
lips still twitching and his eyes open one burned like a droll
wink
Copyright Mike Burr 2008