Bad Penny
There’s a secret stash of data
In the bottom left of the brain drive
It calls you:
BIG MAN
GROOVY BABY
PARTY BOY
It says:
The bad dream will come true
And the rug will be pulled out from under
Comforts will be inverted
Cars will explode
They’re onto you
Atrophied limbs
No teeth
No hands
The populous grind sharp objects
in preparation for this moment
Psychiatrists tote mobile lobotomisers
in preparation for this moment
Searching cornered surfaces
for the kicks you made at birth
Calling:
BIG MAN
GROOVY BABY
PARTY BOY
It is a refrigerated nerve
An age old ectoparasite
Frozen
Halfway through its
irreversible consumption
of the brain
Larvae in the muscle and and eye tissue
Forming cysts in the brain
As you obsessed over the mystery
Your unravelled cassette tape of events
Ignorance congealed to a pale hand
The one that met you in infancy
And covered your mouth
Calling you:
BIG MAN
GROOVY BABY
PARTY BOY
The kicks you made were like the ones
you did at birth
It was a bad penny
The truth is revealed
Ameer Azad is our current Poet-in-Residence. Every now and then we find a voice that sings (or screams) to us. Those voices that show us something new - whether beautiful or repulsive - voices from out there that somehow resonate deeply. Voices we just 'get'. When that happens we graciously ask that they join us for a time. To live and scream along with us.
You can learn more about Ameer, his work and voice in his fantastic interview here.
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