Gnomecore

 

Greet the day like a warrior

Elastic coated hard faced

Driving a truck that’s as tall as a skyscraper

Looking down navigating the roads

Genesis was there with some others

Pass the batons choke on smoke

Face caked in defiance plastered all over

Protesting our liberty

Coagulating crimson crust forms around the mouth

Puffing fury sputters

Lurching and leering 

Fabulous folly in an orchard of rotten fruit

Must we fixate on the distillation of hate

Can we not just forage for fun

Like we used to when

We were stupid and young

Full of idiot joy

Rolling in the hay of our uncertainty

Without a single care

In the roly-poly world

Now we must walk blindfolded through

Liveable lives as if on a tight rope

Which threatens to snap

Alligators snap at our heals

 

To sustain our dreams beyond the anxious

Garden path  we line our hearts with sun baked aquatic ornaments

Snails climb the back of a faded plastic mermaid

Who smiles demurely in a cheap elusive way

How many winter frosts have those forgiving breasts endured 

The tangled netting folds into the hollow of the pond

A naughty gnome flashes ignominiously

Worms wriggle effortlessly selflessly

Knowing their purpose is to wriggle

We dig in short of brain cells

Hard consciousness breathes against the time

This field craft of ours

Lies across the day

Backs on fire

Lost in the flex of bone and muscle.