At dawn thunder rises and lightning falls A black spot in middle of a road Closer and closer – a wobbling black spot A bicyclist unaware of the gods
Slow-pedaling through a nowhere of despair A corpse, fragments of skin still on its bones It turns and grins, a crewman on that ship And in its veins that rotting albatross
At dawn grimacing through rotting-teeth breath A wereling wobbling in existential death
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is:
Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com
It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel . Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.