Sodium Song

Excrement drifting streets

pushed by

forty five degree winds

and needle rain

from an icy syringe.

The nameless

are encouraged

by the godless.

A conflict

between nation

desire and

reason.

Tattoos of youth.

Their journeys to glory

ignite for the last time

in monochrome bedlam.

Sodium songs

that cheer bloody

cacophonies.

Songs to chaperone

death knells

that fertilise

poppy fields.