Emotional

Angels in blue dresses

dance on all our might-have-beens

telling lies and giving prizes

wrapping ribbons round our scene

california highrise

wrecking lives on high-def screens

venting our frustrations

over glossy magazines

glisten in the tarmac

bits and shards in backs of cars

pretty splinters cutting fingers

as we linger in the park

demons in our tongues

will your saliva out-survive you

all the words we try to form

while we’re connecting in the dark

please pass back your paper

we’ll consider while we rape you

in the strobing light

the children fight

assessed by our behaviour

pushing at your limit

can I tie you to specifics?

if my genotype won’t classify

you’ve gotta try to kill it

energy is nothing

kick the zeroes ‘cos they’re bluffing

and we are running out of re-cyc

trust our lady of the fire

all the knives are in my chest

my crashing plane is when I’m best

there is a full negation

I am not, I am the liar

I’ll hide from the sun for you

I’ll put away this gun for you

there is no thing I would not do

no thing to make you smile

high on lies and consequence

I’m losing time in self-defence

the seconds coalesce

into the hours of desire

fall into the future

am I used or did I use you?

are we needy, are we greedy?

did we build our own decline?

both remain at zero

kill your hate, I’ll kill your hero

feel it slip, another grip

another life, another time