Something and Nothing

Limbo ain’t a bad place for hanging around

The uncommitted wasp

Flies round Limbo’s

Nondescript curves

Looking for a soul to sting

It’s stringing the process out

Admittedly

But it’ll get there in the end

Because

For a sting

There’s always the stung

The ferryman, the old bastard

Has a lingering cough

And grabbing hands

And opinions

God, his opinions

Unsolicited of course

Unwarranted

But kind of apt

Under the circumstances

“Ahem”, he says, “Ahem”

And he clears his throat

Whilst slipping the coin

Into the back pocket

Of his trousers

"So it is wanted there

Where the power lies"

Limbo’s eternal vestibule

Means you’re always

On the doorstep

No loyalty

Not even to hell

Caught in the cliché

Of a downwards spiral

Down down

Bloody down

It’s all so damnably dull

So bureaucratic

The unrepentant man

With the dolly at the bar

Drink in hand

Carrion crow on lap

Her nondescript curves

Match Limbo’s -

Place and Person

Melded

Mind the doors please

We’re going

Down to

The first circle

To the

Dancing banker

The dancing wanker

The wanker banker

Paley typical

Of all that’s wrong with the place

Over the bar

Under the bar

Limbo dancing

In hell

Anamnesis of the amniotic

Rest a ghostly head against limbo skin

remember another membrane

from that world of sensory wonder

the comfort of red - the thrill of the throb           

of being/becoming

sentient

listen to the echo of others

at the centre of their own universe

making up rules you were born to break

condemning you

for entering existence - that dreamlike state

so lodge up here

where there is a glint of gold

catch the honeysuckle scent

that drifts from paradise

they say you’ll never see it

oh well

you never did much anyway

innocent

they call you

if they stumble against you

on their fall

to hotter climes

still full of pride

undoubting of their right to patronise

as though they ever knew you

or will remember

that you were/are

float on - bathe in temperate fluid

holding you in eternal

suspended animation

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