Saturday, December 21, 2013

AN EXTRAVANGANCE

I love my own straying


how I'll miss drugs and strippers

and plain old nose-thumbing


the unmerciful earthly powers-that-be


when the crack of some kind of doom

sounds through a dark empty sky


you'll find me with the beggars and the whores

holding a broken bowl


with an insane grin watching the pompous power-mad

bug-eyed and slack-jawed in their limos


while we dance outside their rolled-up windows

tempting them to join us in the gutter


joy unconfined at the cracking peal of thunder

that swallows the whole world in what we once called ecstasy....





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