Strange Ways, Here We Come
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”
the devil’s advocate
came waltzing
through my doors
“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay away
something
not
mine
now
you're
doing time
not the criminal recidivist
nor usurping interloper
and their profound lies
every damned day,
what can I say?
it was staring us full in the face
the covetous harpy
is a clapped out pretending Peugeot
in dire need of a good panel beating,
now you,
you're a flaming
heaven-sent Rolls Royce
the harbinger
continued
on
knowing I had
taken the wrong voice,
an apology post-haste
gift wrapped in gold,
we should be delivering
to you instead, this day, point on
put the whole
sorry saga
once and all to bed
let the cards
fold
once and for all
this was a war in full bloom
not of my understanding
not of my world
we had no right
to come barging into
territory not ours,
it was yours
alone
it was yours
yes, we were
over-bearing duck flapping
mother superior twins
over your fence
into your garden
we came a trampling
we were blinded
by our self-importance,
so much wiser
we didn't see
you were planting
something solid
for the one beautiful flower
all the years you invested
through dark night wars of roses
you soldiered on
for the one beautiful flower
all the seconds,
all the minutes,
all the hours
we came frog marching in
where buried in the sand
were strange things
out of our heads
our intelligence all
emotionally buried
under 6 feet of sand
we were ostriches "
now interjecting,
the advocate
to the
devil’s advocate, said -
"the two of us
sat for nothing,
three, he said,
makes blood
thicker than water
united we stand
divided we fall
three little pigs
all blown away
we fell, we did indeed fall,
you, the tarot tower
we, your terrible wrecking balls
we were two
self-righteous
know-it-alls
lost
for
words
we handed on a platter
to the circling monsters -
those laughing abhorrent court jesters,
what
you loved
most
while the clanging
alarm bells rang
we let two angels hang"
screen fades to black
next scene transitioning, zoom in -
somewhere,
buried subterranean
in a dirt-filled
frozen Siberian plot
in the next world
the singing stopped,
but the dance continued
for waking necromancer,
red shoes on, was clawing her way
out through the dirt, erasing all full stops
love is love
but never
is forgiveness ethereal
the vociferous task of haunting ghosts
never ends for Silver Phantoms
cast from hot lux vitae titanium not steel
it’s never over
for devils advocates and monsters
rolling in pungent sticky brown clover
the war torn
story’s ptsd plot
repeats, repeats, repeats
lima lima bravo
this is
lima lima bravo
can anyone
hear
me
lima lima bravo
this is
lima lima bravo
a response
spectrally
whispered -
"Lima Charlie
lima lima bravo
I am here
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Charlie Foxtrot
Charlie Mike"
to which, red shoes
responds -
40 Mike Mike
"Bravo Zulu", commanding
the other spook says,
Victor Charlie Bravo 11 Bravo
I am close,
and
I am near"
it's never over
through hell fire loops
it dances on and on
it's never on stop
it's never on stop
it's never on stop
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Lux Vitae
"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."
Arthur Miller
"A child's spirit is like a child,
you can never catch it
by running after it;
you must stand still,
and, for love,
it will soon itself come back."
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
“Until an hour before the Devil fell,
God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
“In an ordinary crime, how does one defend the accused? One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature an invisible crime, is it not? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victims - and they do testify, the children certainly do testify.”
Arthur Miller, The Crucible
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