Voices in the head, play dead.
River, rib, rill, red.
Thunderbolts within the tread.
Gold, be made to lead.
Tornado, blue widening gyre.
Belladonna, byre.
Lyrics of the liquid lyre.
Orange funeral pyre.
Mandrake, when you start to shriek.
Canine, thy bad bane.
Feline, tremulous top teak.
Wading through green rain.
Paranoid, schizophrenia.
Thought-spark, white shirt hurt?
Lachrymose the languor law.
Arrowed, O black quirt.
Severance? Gone, thine own way.
Hell and Heaven, hay.
Doubt, dread, doom, dung disarray.
Away from me stay.
Coral reef, the legal brief.
Cases, caught a cold?
Cannabis, thy pressured kif.
Brown the grizzly bold.
Nanotechnological?
That means very small.
Mother Entropy, your call.
Sword, halve. Vine, vinall.
Tyrannosaur, how you roar!
Kill floor crimson gore!
Lava volcanic null door!
Wind up war before!
Psyche, in the morning hours;
Belladonna flowers?
Dancing stars in silent showers?
Glimmers, glows, and glowers!
Ariadne, webs to weave?
Wisdom, will ye grieve?
What ought mortals to believe?
What ought I conceive?
Kali Mother, over boil?
Face down in the soil!
Military, might, embroil?
Serpents, coals a-coil...
Queen Tomyris, papyrus?
What indeed to write?
Cyrus caught a virus?
Reality, fade white!
Crabapples brew for Crassus?
To "most indecent" go!
No use skipping classes!
Revenge for him, my foe!
Tyrannosaur with face a-stern?
Tamarind taciturn!
Canis Major, what to learn?
Dinosaur, discern....
Heaven, storm, thy journey long;
Inspired by a song?
Fate and Fortune, blow a-strong!
Daughters, doth belong...?
Over, soul? Remote? Control?
Position, thy pole.
Nearby stars, hope, golden bowl?
Mole, dig toward the vole.
Little boys are fascinated by dinosaurs
They ask mom and dad for more and more
Could be an allosaur, could be a tyrannosaur
Young lads revel in their carnivorous gore
As for me, I am quite content with a turtle
that goes glub-glub in the water when it's feeling fertile
COPLA 111 RESOLUTION : This Bad Guy World
Criminals and cowards are blood brothers
Both operate in stealth to inflict
Harm to increase wealth
States multinationals speculators
Rely on spineless banks to restrict
Works for GoodGuy health
Tyrannosaur States join hands with culprits
To protect criminal states’ interests :
Make bad banks bulge
Sinistre hollow cowardice hides hits
When blood brothers threaten interests :
State banks indulge
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
COPLA 95 INVOCATION : This Bad Guy World
Tyrannosaur State eats rebel states
Even if its peoples’ stomachs ache :
Pollute pumped gas
Some toddler states like to lie in crates
Full of Tyrannosaur shells and cake :
Jiving to jazz
Others congregate to make war
On tyrannosaurs decrepit :
Born ennemies
While our mighty Tyrannosaur
Falls all by itself into cesspit :
Making babies
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
COPLA 94 INVOCATION : This Bad Guy World
Can the State be arraigned by the State
And condemn and imprison itself :
Whose is the blame
Do many Bad Guys make Bad Guy State
Or does one the other way round delve
To reveal game
Tyrannosaur states auto-absolve
Themselves for the wrongs of bad guys :
Raison d’Etat
Yet selfish acts of Bad Guys resolve
Themselves into acts of the Wise :
Au nom d’Etat
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
COPLA 93 INVOCATION : This Bad Guy World
The lone wolf shies away from the pack
The tyrannosaur scoffs at his kind :
Systems with it
Tiglons roam lone on the beaten track -
Fall prey the gnu foal lame and blind :
Systems well-knit
Stand alone and the pack will hunt you
Lose your integrity to live safe :
The human fate
The Overman’ll camp on the volcano
Far from the humdrum crowd’s stifling life :
Asylum bait
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014
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