Easy Money
Starting easily
Like the dazzle of a shell bursting
For engagement,
A moment visible
But travelling in echo.
At the brain controlling,
A sum alien.
Modulated but deadly,
As a switch to voices of "incoming"
How friendly
With something personal — Message ready to unleash hell,
At the brain controlling,
A sum alien.
Each sense the miracle of atom and
particle
As models tremble,Modulated but deadly,
As a switch to voices of "incoming"
How friendly
With noise intimate.
A cup to drink from.
That the loving person
Who likes somebody
That likes something
Is perfect.
Intoxicated, a symmetry.
Every word explosive —
The lack of reason
For what we are about to receive
Making us truly thankful.
At nil,
Our understanding.
The lights in the crater not ours,
Everything emptied.
So I began to go beyond going to the
limit.
Observation
To sacred text
Naked and extinguished.
I shall bring you now
Either
To the end of time
Or new summit.
I shall bring you now
To entertainment.
To boys
Who take you up and
down
And around again
In simulation
Until the music breaks.
I shall take you now
Into a sea of ruin
Where chaos
Is computer-driven
And the cancer
Has every tongue still
I shall bring you now
To neither good nor evil
But observation.
Holland Park
And some of the smarter people
Are trapped in wealthier ghetto,
I lie awake in prison.
A peacock in the smarter mezzanine,
With lusty wobble, I exercise daily
To see my sentence double:
A lifer in this grotto. Blessings on Monaco
And all its palaces —
Particularly the one I live in
Covered in bougainvillea.
Or the yacht I forgot to mention
Abacus 1,2,3.
Or a matter not unconnected,
Mykindatown
And all its palaces —
Particularly the one I live in
Covered in bougainvillea.
Or the yacht I forgot to mention
Abacus 1,2,3.
Or a matter not unconnected,
The boiling of the sea.
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