. .. picture postcard album .. .
. .. some are yellowed, some are straight
a few hardly come into view
they are lost somewhere in Jonah’s ether
at the bottom of the whale
in the slime that’s part digested
picture postcards leave a trail
a super sleuth, crack-hot spy
wearing those sunglasses
that really are – a camera
dirty postcards of flesh and limbs
barrel loaded, the polygraph set
record monsignor’s greatest sins
we have no need to publish
the public have seen it all before
nothing shocks or titillates him anymore
joe’s a broad-minded individual
made up of a thousand parts
a million or so picture postcards
addresses have been scrambled
cancelled postage all ink-blazed
moments of impropriety catalogued
phone-calls and messages saved
a respected, socially communitive figure
once more has been caught in a lie
misinformation, deceit and outrage
decorate the album, line the walls
subjects of enquiry block all calls
aside the awesome realisation
treasured picture postcards
squeezed his life inside a vice
Jonah makes a rush for the exit
the plume of vomit is extreme
waters of Niagra falls of Victoria
are not enough gushing asperge
to wash away picture-postcard
incriminations mostly obscene
it all came out one summers day
amidst the pools of contrition
aside the mountains of regret
the souls of many Jonah’s
found bundled in a heap
a pile of picture postcards
never meant to keep .. .
©edenbraytoday26.06.2022
AS LONG AS YOU SLEEP .. .
As long as you sleep .. .
As long as you sleep
I will watch over you
to warn you of the crashing waves
the march of time
relentless in its disdain of life
Your caustic skin renews
yet denies the eloquence of reason
your appearance sequinned
sequential of the order varinidae
your horny back ’tis pressed
hard against the wall
of mankind’s duplicitous persuasion
where magnets draw affection
more by your quizzical expression
per chance you acquiesce or quantify
your scientific appropriation
We monitor this, we determine that
the constructs of our dependencies
while all nature suffers, struggles
from our monstrous alienation
anxieties are sick mothers
looking over our shoulders
for alligators in the sewers
elephants unbidden to our quarters
predators that wait impassively
compulsive disorders and addictions
wants that become needs, vision bleeds
and while you sleep
I will watch over you
wake the moon while it is drifting
send beacons unto the planets
announce your firstborn young
Impressively passive
genus varanus merrem
they hunt in packs
like hungry dogs of war
for mortal combat with teeth and claw
they hunt to gather, stay alive
as all species of the carnivore
a most necessary absolution
affords this gently generic reptilian
endangered, finely prehistoric
limbs prehensile and grasping
©edenbraytoday24.06.2024
#thelizardmemoirs
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