70

recall with me the folks you know close

suppose their eyes observe a glow, so

slowly closing with the dark, hark!

and feel the need to reach our mark

no complaints

and wanes the moon so we’re moving on

these campaigns

of sure-fire tunes, and bottles drawn

seventy shrills from a whore’s nest

seventy kills for the fortress

laughter fills your halls at dusk, much like

irresistible battle-lust

bourbon poured, now rest assured

that all your glory will be restored

when establish brains 

remain in liquid perservatives

acting like potted-plant veins

which drain what life the water gives

seventy centuries left to go

seventy year-old eager bones

its funny how i close my eyes and see yours

the proof that what we do we cannot ignore

yet we’re whisked away by bottles of whiskey

and some other girl who says something, like

beneath the canopy life has come

to gather one-and-all, until night is done

and you’re left standing there all on your own

to say “switch me off, i’m going home”

seventy days into a summer, with 

how many more? so until another 

rolls round…


look.

n.y.e show at the Casbah.

Photography by Rhonnie Cockshutt

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