I see a desolation in his face
who's eye I can't meet
and the bursting vessels
are the future.
I turn away.
I have developed a habit of
blind faith
inasmuchas;
He feeds even the sparrows of the air
and I hope to fuck He may feed me.
Jobless and the daycurrents
roll down Lawrence Street,
the self disintegrating
under penniless sunshine in Botanic.
Without something to hate
the world seems
unstructured.
Becoming like the
little children
I sit cross - legged
and play with things
like paper and poetry,
take them apart and
rip off their wings
and try to fly.
I have developed a habit of blind faith
in worship of delerium, Elysian trippings;
Christ needs love and my brother and I,
we gladly lay down our selves at some Altar.
The shrines of Sex or Pudding
or Industry, Goats or God;
Oh Holy Father oh Fine Liquor,
What a Holy Screaming Infant
are all our joys,
and like God one day
lay down our dreams,
which we call the self,
and pour like water
into a tender void.
Hey, first things first, I think you're the only other person from NI I've seen on this site before.
This poem was great, it made me laugh and think the whole way through, especially "Rip off their wings and try to fly". It seems like such a perfect line because it has a childlike quality to it which keeps the flow of that part. Anyway, Good stuff mate, I'll have a read at some more of your stuff.