The Torn Factory
Your father as a territory manager
& midstream technology products
the rim of the sky
we never speak of it
that twilight Cameron Schlumberger Company
floating above Product Managers
scoured Surface Solutions
said aloud under Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill 2010 Blowout Preventer
the last line of defence -(amended)
your father as a territory manager
spewing oil & gas into Gulf waters for 87 days,
a Filipino maid bent
on Jerusalem stone modified in China
the Macondo Well everything is upside down
inside its darkness
the largest in Marine history,
The American International School of Muscat
over whorls of punishment
& watching
comradesolidarity mewling
in circles circles
its mutual fear stage lit
wanting to be an immigrant
or to become one,
the 87-day-long
wait for thistles
impossible in the sun
& categorically barred feelings
nurse-like Contract Negotiations
White Fathers English Faces
SGV Frac Valves
machined aluminium
in red zones, hands
Kangaroo Court
WhatsApp Curse
talk about radical politics,
the infirmed the dead
the dead end red zones
& doggo SMS anodised cascade
efforts to bring it under control
a love tool you use on yourself
after to shame me alone
to spelling & unspelling
new Euclids Modern Homes
covered in ice
& gone suddenly
firebrands huddled
in the Torn Factory,
I believe in paranoia now
& the mad perfection of the disease
no matter what gratuitous things people do
to one another
it is best a scapegoat
is painted luminous yellow
& the anonymity of the firing squad
Whatsapp Kangaroo
Court Social Darwinism
cloisters one way glass
patio to soft glades
you use it on yourself at night
due process
gavel nixed metal
rond-points that turn
on a ruined Eherecht
terms & conditions
signed in the dark
synthetic blood provisions
things float in natural unison
& the unapproachable core
of that anonymity
burns around its edges
a major offshore accident,
your father as a territory manager
The High Density-Polyethylene
Houses just burn in daylight
remember & the endless
vanguards around
Purchese Street
Open Space diversionary concrete
Botched up Artwork
depicting
intra sexual, intra working class
love is a sadistic act
under the Emergency Powers Act,
an upturned ark
axel grease in the NHS hospital
again & the vocab
slips characteristic
auto-didact drugs I know
but class struggle
is really Customer Service
& the prescriptions
nothing more now
being symbolically dead
everybody has tears in their eyes
but does not mind them being there
probably doesn't even know
there are complex passwords
numerical codes
& physical keys,
& what it means
to undarken light somewhere
with peak freedom
the red tape rolodex
wraps around my neck
sheds a rubber stamp
