Drums

written ca.1991
somehow i fear i haven't changed...much.


Drums

Your heart beats fast,
drums beaten at night,
ears humming with sound,
my blood sings to you.

Your voice wakes
the sleeping child
to fly so high
into a starry sky

Your eyes 
knew my thirst,
they are my water
where i whirl with rage

Cradle me in your arms
until I burn myself,
hold me to be still
and breathe desire
in my murderous fire

You shall kill me
maybe
but I shall live
as a thorn and a wound

raw as Genghis Khan,
so very thirsty,
his mind aflame
and much too much alone

I shall burn the clouds,
devour the rains
and beat the Earth,
riding his horse:
thus I shall die

my tears boiling,
my last breath
to singe your mind

Within half an hour of nowhere

written ca.1991
i must have been a horrible man..?


Within half an hour of nowhere


O dear
don't panick
Get your gun
Amok is what you want

Each one a God
strutting with pride.
All of them white and smelly,
hands across the belly,
nothing or all to hide

What else is there to do
in a supermarket,
and after all it's Sunday,
you won't hurt a fart

Maybe first the tins,
pineapple juice, custard,
avocados, yoghurt,
clotted cream, then the bins,
nightgowns and cashbox,
the windows and doors

Fuck it, I hope somebody walks
into these bullets,
just one astray.
I need to see blood

All around
blood is thinned out,
it's milky with fat
and tough on the heart.

Let me shoot Gods
and drink their blood.
Let me die
fiercely
to rise and fly
beyond the cloud,
beyond