THE DESTRUCTION OF LARGE CITIES
IN THAT DRONING CITY (THE NEST)
each vox is a fuzz box
dead centre point
where the young insects feed
in the mouths of the ancients
whose masks smile and scream
dead silently
and I am trying
(come closer my love)
to talk gently
IN HELL THERE ARE NO ECHOES
footsteps stop
outside the door
where no switches exist
for breaking the circuit of the systems of lighting
(and power)
there is only a hand
on the handle
there are no echoes
stop
do not be hysterical
WAR GAME
playground frozen
white on black
flash
scorches bulb ice hot
blind men lead blind children
(slow motion)
in wavering circles past a scorched flag
ring dem bells
UNDERNEATH THE BLACK PLANETS
(revolving, invisible)
doom city exists
lost citadel crushed by the counter-attack of the forests
near one broken dome
stained skull, opening slowly to the sky
(vegetation has crossed the perimeter)
she waits for me
I come each night
with a fresh mutation of flowers
cannot console her
FINAL NEWS HEADLINES
on the fifth side of the empty war room
we found the tapes still running
(machinery survives intact below the surface)
SURVIVE/SURVIVE/PROTECT/SURVIVE/DO YOU COPY?/ IT'S TOTAL/OK U.K./HER AGONY/MAGGOT TALKS/USA DEAD CHIEFS PEACE PIPE MISSION/QUEEN CONFESSES/RAYGUN OVERAWES /KEEP CRUISING BABY/IT'S TOTAL/BABY
GUERILLA KILLER/BURN UP/GOLD MENACE/GOLD BLOCK/THE YOLK OVERFLOWS/HOB'S LANE RAPE/PRESSURE INCREASES/PLEASURE DROME HORROR/IT'S SENSATIONAL/SHELTER GIRLS/ALL SYSTEMS GONE PINK/WHITE OUT/GROUND ZERO APPROACHING/KING KONG BORN AGAIN /OPERATION GOD HITS
OUT/WAR IS LAXATIVE//WAR IS LAXATIVE/WAR IS LAXATIVE/TERMINAL ZONE CONTACT/DO YOU READ ME FAT MAN?/HOT DAMN GONNA BUST MY GUT/IT'S BREEDING SUN POWER/STAR POWER/SUN POWER/
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