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 INDULGENCES