The God of Change
The god of change is the god of deathI am here to serveI am here to serve The restless spirit is roaming, roving, writhingAnd booze won’t calm it downAnd drugs won’t calm it downAnd sex won’t calm it downThe restless spirit is crying out, tormentedPleading to gods, who don’t yet answer The god of death…
Organised Fun is the Best Fun
By Thomas Caterer The righteous and indignant youthsurvey their surroundingsThey’ve not been here longFresh stillThey accurately surmise;‘It’s all fucked, everything here is fucked’ Spirits dropped onto another plainSpirits dropped into another gameKind and cruel, good and evil, together againBound again to build cultures,civilisations, communities The body and its needs are a distractionDistracting from attempts at…
Goldilocks, Guangxi, and Straight Whiskey
An existential panicin a Japanese restaurantpacing up and downstanding up, sitting down Later a friend reassured me‘you think you’re just flesh and bones?’He said he didn’t fear death; as in the voidrather the punishment for his sins If I can be convinced of a spirit realmeven the malevolent ones can give comfortfor what their existence…
Charlie Boy
By Thomas Caterer Charlie boy, he walks out of the cluba big lad, danced not quite majesticallybut joyfully bounced as erratic limbsfloundered and flailed A smirking man in the smoking areasmiles cruelly in his directiona cutting remark on good lad Charlie’s bodyor dance moves or somethingelicits mirth from the surrounding sycophants Charlie smiles warmly and…
Ben Gives Julia Flowers
Ben hands over a bouquet of flowersplacing them carefully into Julia’s hands‘women like flowers right?they remind you of deathbut you don’t fear it like men dowomen are real troopers like that’ Julia lifts them to her nose, takes an approving sniffBen remarks;‘they say women like flowers because they liketo be reminded of their mortality, they…
Inevitable
Why are you bothered about deathif you’re such a Buddhist?Scared that if embodied beings can be malevolentas well as benevolentthe same can be said for disembodied beings?That is a troubling thought For all the pain, suffering, and senseless crueltyof this worldI still find a lot I love about this worldand do not want to leave…
Nothing
By Thomas Caterer I was in a club called DEF in JapanI tried talking to the barmaid about deathShe asked why I was thinking about thatI replied I always amI thought of a friend from way back whenI can’t think of anything profound to say about it nowHe should be hereHe’s notWell, I see all…
Harmony
The ying and yang need to be in harmonywe understand this is truefrom a distance one views two of another speciessensually, violently entwinedit can’t tell whether they’re fighting or fuckingthey are not of the same kindcloseness expressed in an intimate touchthe harmony of spheres, the unity of opposite forcesyou know it is truewe need to…
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