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"Paper Tigers"



eyes mark slow time
spotting leopard rhyme
never changing its spots
black balled
white pops
the want-to-be bees
sting the dripping honey spot

slapping cards down
kitty pots are shuffled
bluffing intelligentsia
between the gaps
flatulent poets floss their teeth
waxing lyrical strings
tied to the weary mirrored soliloquy

cheap conversations 
like thin cotton threads
on a spinning wheel reeled in
marked inconsequentially
by small thimbles worn as armour
pricks blood from a laureate limerick
sad in its slapstick

wet the fingers
turn the pages 
theatrical degradation
moves in well-dressed stages
sucker-punched by trolls 
who belong in a dark Hieronymus Bosh
have gone all dutch with Latin diabolus

tying hearts and minds 
to ducking chairs 
immersed in the blood 
from discarded hearts
unholy and baptismal 
all good poets 
must float to the top during 
the Poetry Assizes

a small death before rebirth
time stops, their life as poet starts

Love
craving light
is born with soft lips
and sharp teeth
hungry and emerging
visceral and wanting
from dark hubris

straight from the poet’s mind
the mouth is sewn shut
the words begin to 
fly like Hamlet’s Ravens
black habits undressed
like a nun more than ready before bed
holding prayer with bless’ed crucifix

on her knees she prays,
“two roads diverged
in a yellow wood
and sorry 
I could not 
travel both
I took the one less travelled”

prowling with paper tigers
who pretended to be poets
I sat in their laps
reading their growls and
watching the lyrical naive
romancing high school minds
parked on perpetual sedentary thrones

legacies grinning 
winning light voltage

100 high slow dark watts
roll over in their rainbow 
unicorn dreaming flower beds
like wilting pale blue forget-me-nots
swallowing the sweets that are sent
misunderstanding the beauty 
buried underneath the velvet Pink 

Roses of Heliogabalus

Paper Tigers chasing 
Lions all knowing

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)






"The Boiling Point" / The The
https://youtu.be/tBnI8edwcFY






“Begin, murderer, 
leave thy damnable faces 
and begin. 
Come, 
the croaking raven 
doth bellow for revenge.”    



"Truth is truth, lies are lies
Headlines strike between the eyes
But when is a word not a word?
How's the meaning been reversed?"






“Oppressit in tricliniis versatilibus parasitos suos violis et floribus, sic ut animam aliqui efflaverint, cum erepere ad summum non possent.”













The Roses of Heligabalus
latin translation -
https://useum.org/artwork/The-Roses-of-Heliogabalus-Lawrence-Alma-Tadema-1888

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus



"The Road Not Taken", Robert Frost
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken



Paper Tiger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_tigerdehttps://www.luthercollege.edu/university/academics/impetus/spring-2011/the-unique-concept-of-the-witch-and-the-witch-trials-in-early-modern-england/



Assizes

Assize. def.
noun HISTORICAL
plural noun: assizes
a court which formerly sat at intervals in each county of England and Wales to administer the civil and criminal law. In 1972 the civil jurisdiction of assizes was transferred to the High Court, and the criminal jurisdiction to the Crown Court.

The Assizes. 
https://www.luthercollege.edu/university/academics/impetus/spring-2011/the-unique-concept-of-the-witch-and-the-witch-trials-in-early-modern-england/

Cucking stool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucking_stool



Pink -
Gender. Sexuality. Politics. Social Movements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinko




LYRICS/ "The Boiling Point", The The
https://genius.com/The-the-boiling-point-lyrics
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