Polidori's Madness


from the ABC set Crankwood

Rat ridden write your life along these lines
see what chances fate combine
to sink you down in stink this time
shove along indifferent, blind
to consequences, fear and loathing
royal prejudices decomposing
less is more your conscience pricks
hate this pressure, take sick risks
problems that the others list
let yourself be rat bitten lest
your feelings rate below this test
of all your horror and all you take
 understand what conspires to fate
teaching others don't wish to know
as above so too below
Stagnates stone no more exists
than strange winged devils clutching fists
in old prints and race stained sheets
that only what themselves defeat

 
Spider scrawled arachnid inked
in wormed through solid thoughts to sink
indolent words indifferent friends
thinking that raw shrieks defend
A licking horror that fluctuates
a sucking terror come congregates
at lampreyed sores and rotting pile
suppurate to wants defiled
a corpse of thought is then inspired
a rotting dog of wonders fired
clacking dewed of countless cost
invertebrate lies sloven tossed
weeping tar tears and slime filled promise
pus wiped suffering at least is honest

 
Give it all these romantic fools
take to a body and then so use
 up its fluids recompense
for all this time now wasted spent
on vast caverns of epic prose and ode man love
that quickly pale and raise above
angel filled street and piss shit whores
of Babylon that this poet scored
of monsters and of vampires filled
to burn and mock on crested hills
A cocks crow wonder lest be in sight
and put an end this savage night

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Comments

capoeiragem | February 7, 2008 - 10:09

Good poem, savage and powerful, reminded me of Saul Williams,I think because of the emphasis on rhyme and internal rhythm, would work well as a performance piece I think.

Ken Simm | February 7, 2008 - 11:49

Thank you. Illustrious company. You are too kind. Ken