Sunday, 1 March 2020

The Oldest Song


We were melted guitar parts
With a heavy bass, freaked beats 
And one of those dippy organs 
That signifies hallucinogens 

We’d erupt, like childish bombs
And ricochet our lovely bullets
Tumbling unrehearsed
But tuneful, into anecdote 

Into closer than you dare
A gripped fist, like meditation
You said. I didn’t care 
To spit, the pips,

Or grow them from hand
To heavy, to the imaginary
Reviews we read 
In unpublished papers 

Underneath whose headlines 
Runs a story old as stories 
A song forever sung 
Like a firm grip to a warm gun. 

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