The Last of Summer

Blasted through the arteries of great wide open spaces like fuel-injected bullets from some laser-sighted gun, over-priced and deathtrap built, nothing cars to nowhere places, trailing prisms of bleeding sump oil underneath the cooling sun. From the money-grubbing fingers of a travel agent slaughter trip, thrown a pitch in shadows of a power station pleasure park, where sheep are glowing green at night with radiation flavoured dip, the very soul of Mother Earth succumbs unto the leeching dark. Rabble rousing bodies spill their flesh upon the mosaic floors, a crunch of black sand sticky feet through hotel foyer abattoirs, these patrons clutch at local maps, get lost inside revolving doors, then dance around the nuclear core in plastic palm-tree disco bars. A haemorrhage of bleeding skies damped down with streaks of sulphur grey is fused onto the dark horizon by a deeper shade of red, yellow bikini beachwear melts leukaemic on the judgement day, the swallow cardiac arrests, the last of summer drops down dead.