The memories that seep into our consciousness are beyond comprehension
Some good it will do me – the value is too tight – air pockets expand
Each day spend an hour looking at the water –
Such is the sound and meaning of loss – it carries weight –
Sitting down with an 8oz steak cooked medium rare
Because you can’t risk anything bloodier in a British kitchen –
World leaders are gathering and I can’t help notice the paradox –
Eight men and women around which history turns –
Do they go to sleep at night to dream of burning flesh?
Somewhere on an assembly line in Northern Europe
A new memory-powered drone is being put together
Using ten thousand parts 3D printed in South Korea –
The synapses and the nerve paths – we can still see the sun –
Catch the sunset flight along the migratory channels
This year there were white lilacs everywhere – the purples didn’t
flourish.
Adrian Slatcher
Deference
Broken down and broken up
the mazy chains fall on us
mind binding in full practice
milked human kindness sour
deference drip fed in solution
one percent asked submission
make buy die birds being free
everyone knows not to dream
the island of Manhattan bought
with $28 dollars’ worth of beads
your interval of time between
birth and death is being sold
a perfect teeth slim wasted
flesh object held as model A9
approved as long as it works
do not cry out the whip stings
do not dare release the pain
in some historical situations
it has been legal for owners
to kill their slaves slavery is rare
amongst hunter gatherer people
the high mountains are calling me
the wilderness inside seeks equality
to perhaps join a rebel guerilla army
and wait for the great red bat sign
to the fill the burning bloody sky.
jgh