Sometime during a star-slashed night
slipping into hummingbird time
dirt roads bled into oil-slicked autobahns
blood thickens - bones slow
gears screaming -colors blend
barely time to catch a breath
devilish momentum
over the edge
ground strike
conception meeting death
from a crow lined hat
Mr. silence smiles...
Freedom rides the high tide soul of the wind
a concrete funnel into misty tunnel
speed of light
whorls of a half-wasted life.
Along the sides
loved ones
angelic robed
circle upon circle upon circle
eternity road
heavenly nest
finally
home
finally
rest}
When, from the spleen of creation's glory, smoke rose
A dust cloud of cloven hoof stampeding,
Rolled in salutation across the panorama
Of the bodies smashed and bleeding.
In the shrieking siren bawl receding,
Blackout autobahns exploding
With a car jam crashing pile-up
And the hearses needing loading.
And the summer won't quit goading,
Fanning fires, blazing tyres and chassis,
Spilled gut cassette deck entrails
Screeched shredded songs by Shirley Bassey.
The wrecks and mayhem seemed so classy
When they howled and clawed the senses
On the weekdays made for madmen
It's the death toll that incenses.
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