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Sunday, 26 August 2012

Elective Destruction - JLG Clift


I give you

Grass, lovers, life, law, faith, poetry, man

Victory, song, sound, colour,

Purple green yellow orange black brown

 

 Red, white, blue

 

Thought

 

Progress

 

I give you

Suicide

Rot, death, wrecks, lies, sin, man, fractured

Lovers, baying for affection in the arms of another

False partner as

The American

 Dream roars in the guts of the

Cars racing in grumbles past their mo-

Tell us of vows now vacuous

Empty words

 

Retreat

 

Progress

 

Retreat

 

Thought’s trickle to the front of the

Mind

Too late to act

We are stumbling

We are crumbling

 

Light bursts through

The window of the motel as

The lost lovers intertwine

Impoverished

Once again

 

The roar of the

American

Dream

Engine

Is

With them,

Reaches for the western wall,

Stretches for the TV Set

Breaks the forth wall

Big Dreams are ploughing

Threw smaller dreams

Asunder

 

It’s voyage crushes

Tangled comforts

Thuds through the head

Boards the furniture to watch

The future

 

Big Dreams pounced on small

One

‘S

Mercy

Less

They had their eyes closed

They don’t look

 

They don’t look

At

Each other

 

They have never looked at each other

They will never

They are native

Paste on the

 

Arches of progress.

 

Engine parks up

Light hits the TV

Power

On

Power

Houses of American

Dreams pull up

To watch the

Show

 

It’s been a

Hell of a ride

 

Ladies, gentle

Men

 

I give you

Progress

 

I give you

 

 An Election Drive

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