literature

• spits like a tamed cat turned savage
• my name is ozymandias king of kings
• the blood-shadow stays on the street
• our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds
• your bloody life in my bloody hands
• tackle looters robbing a bank
• i wander through each chartered street, near where the chartered Thames does flow
• in every face i meet marks of weakness marks of woe
• the mind forged manacles i hear
• he lugged a rifle as numb as a smashed arm
• his terrors touchy dynamite
• bullets smacking the belly out the air
• a yellow hare that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle
• which had been a better way to die
• a samurai sword in the cockpit, a shaven head full of powerful incarnations
• how the chimney sweepers cry every blackening church appalls
• blind me to my own identity
• carving out me history bandage up my eye with me own history
• with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
• two vast and trunkless legs of stone-ozymandias
• and wrinkled lip a sneer of cold command-ozymandias
• i gave commands them all smiles stopped-my last duchess
• ranked my gift with anybody’s gift-my last duchess
• nine hundred year old name-my last duchess
• then im home on leave but i blink

  remains
• slowly our ghosts drag home
• the bright filled paperweight-emigree

  paperweight-beauty and decorative

  bright-vibrancy and light
• they mutter death and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight-emigree


  sunlight-repeated at the end of each to remind the reader of hope and optimism
• i am branded by an impression of sunlight
• the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a blue translucent sea

  kamikaze
• we too learnt we had to be silent

  kamikaze
• spits like a tamed cat turned savag— bayonet charge
• forgetting that it pummels your house too-bayonet charge
• strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear-bayonet charge

  juxtaposition
• went weaving through the water like a swan-prelude
• a huge peak black and huge-prelude

  repitition
• take my milk for gall


  lady macbeth
• look like an innocent flower but be the serpent under th

  lady macbeth
• all the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand

  lady macbeth
• maps too the sun shines through-tissue