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Friday, 21 February 2025

scatological rites of all nations (REDRAFT)

 


A Shopping Centre 

of human bird noises 

coming out the masseuse chairs 

chloroform soaked life 

singing to dead thrushes 

Moorgate rains ethanol fluid

turns the mourning out of earth

scatological rites of all nations 

under corporate umbrellas 

welded indices 

small pillboxes of faith curls 

in ludic circles NCP London clay  

bellum mouth runs out

the deregulated Square Mile Roman City 

boundaries its ‘Corporation’ 

65,000 cubic metres of soil 


for Bronze long-limbed hares 

& CLC veneers this is worlds 

impenetrable edge 

gets buried under Carillon 

I can see it,

like a charred linnet buff

burning for burnings sake 

nightstars cloudnines

IF THERE’S A HELL, 

I’VE LIVED TO SEE IT

jack-knifed the bend of a hockey stick

elected representatives arcane

Common Councilmen,

milk-paled Aldermen, sallow sheriffs

& Lords from Medieval guilds

a jasmine flower stuck behind your ears; 

air-kissing the profoundest carrion

cerulean Amytheus cut vitrified 

British Transport Police Mosaics 

ceramic broke by downdraft 

where the fountains were removed 

The Concrete Society gone underground 

brand engagement 

platforms annulled basking spots 

in the Outernet incopads gauze 

Tricorn blood makes no noise 

Paco Rabanne 1 Million walk-in JumboLand

where I ate your withered tie 

with Amarone & vetched Gillespies 

poured poppies down my briefs 

at the Naval & Military Club 

the Long Bar sangfroid bombed 

transmetropolitan 

Pink Gin runs out my mouth welt,, 

the cities shoulder burns a 

breadcrumb trail piss sunk air

parsed of national jeremiads

ancient corner ghost-catching spectres

occult thieves on premises of the Federationist League 

stolen municipal chairs

& newly widened centre arches 

& the pavement of City Roads 

its agoraphobia, forged epistle flax, 

watch as they start carving up 

the Ossulton Estate 

double-helix crick shaped, 

the function room into flats

& 275 tonnes of  Westmorland Green slate

painted Vanta black.