Kit Kelen #783 - re-priming again

783

re-priming

for those who have gone under

you get ideas from what's down there

from the lost

from their having gone

and often about to kick off the scaffold

sometimes tiredeness overtakes

and all the years till now

there's always a ladder

up and in

corner with your initials engraved

while in their ooze you splash

then summer comes

fizzle among

and soggy if sky down

come on a tumbrel

not even in their prime yet

not yet fleshed

now under! now forever gone!

all of them were children

none could vote

all served

and traitors!

we carved them up

crows pecked the entrails

you can always work with a stain

scrape back

you need some depth to carve

some of these ideas could push up daisies

and burying's too good for some

so we dig 'em out to flog some more

many drowned in the last storm

some bobbed up

sprayed them down like bugs

or left to bake

with the ants crawl over

honey-coated

left to wash away

some rot

we lay to rest

we burn

each for example

and let that be lesson

but am I finished with them then?

every one was tricked to be

not one had a choice

yes I laughed demoniacally

evil if not genius

came at them with the chisel

came at them with the knife again

why should they survive, not me?

so various

the launch into eternity

think of the forgotten

deep pile and dusty

spiders' home

death to the dead!

and as to those fortunate still writhe

in possibility -

on all those who are about to salute me

I slap down the paint

amen

hooray