A CENTURY OF
20 YEARS BEFORE I WAS BORN
MEN CHARGED ACROSS THE COUNTRYSIDE FULL OF PISS AND VINEGAR SEIZING
LIFE BY THE BALLS BREAKING
CONVENTIONS INTO LITTLE
CHUNKS OF DEBRIS AND
GULPING PASSION LIKE IT
WAS CHEAP WINE AND GETTING
JUST AS DRUNK ON ITS UNFETTERED FREEDOM AND THEY BURNED AND BURNED UNTIL THEIR HEART EXPLODED WITH THE OVERWHELMING ENERGY OF
THE UNIVERSE AND WHEN THEY
CARVED THEIR IMMORTALITY INTO
STONE MORE MEN SAID 'HELL YES!
HOW DO I GET SOME OF WHAT
THAT CAT HAD?' AND SO THEY
CHARGED INTO THE VOID
GUNS ABLAZE AND CARES TO
THE WIND ONLY NOW THE
DRUGS WERE HARDER AND
THE WOMEN LOOSER AND
THEY GREY DARK DAYS LESS
WELCOMING BUT INSTEAD OF
THINKING TWICE THEY DOUBLED
AND TRIPLED DOWN CASTING
OFF THE FETTERS OF THEIR
FATHERS (WHO HAD CAST OFF
THE FETTERS OF THEIRS) AND
YELLED LOUDER AND HARDER
INTO THE MAW OF THE VOID
BUT THE ONLY ANSWER THEY
GOT WAS COLD HARD SILENCE
OF DEATH BUT SOLIDER ON
THEY DID LED BY SERGEANTS OF
THEIR HEARTS DRIVING THEM
LIKE DOGS OF WAR MOUTHS FOAMING WITH ALL THE
ANGER AND BILE OF THEIR
FOREFATHER'S UNFULFILLED
WANTS CHEWING AND HUNGRY
FOR THOSE FIERY OPEN ROADS
AND ALIVENESS THEY READ ABOUT
IN THOSE 1940 INCHES OF NONSTOP DRUG-INDUCED HAZE BY THEIR GOD-FATHER OF SELFISH IKIGAI UNTIL THEY PERISHED BUT NOT BEFORE FAILING THEIR CHILDREN THE DECENCY OF MOTHERS OR FATHERS OR INDEED EVEN THE CERTITUDE OF THEIR OWN SEX GODDAMNED YOU ALL AND YOUR FAITHLESS INDULGENCE