Drowning in the Ultra Violet
 
 

In numbing cascades the alcohol streams
through the hyper caffeinated
and eyes reveal amphetamine dreams,
which saw the world disintegrated.

The taste of exhumed puppies lingers in my mouth,
domesticated back yard corpses risen,
beaten blue and petrol doused,
cuff me quickly, drag me off to prison.

Biting me with endless maybes,
the sting of Sol's serrated tongue
has maddened me with frothy rabies,
sapped the youth from what was young.

So tell me, stargazing friend,
will the universe hold out until tomorrow
or has it been wound to a cosmic end?
If so, return the soul you borrowed.

Gravity is a harsh mistress,
bridges burnt and eyes gouged out,
all my theories soon dismissed,
crippling intellectual drought. 

I'm swallowed by nocturnal radiance,
I pluck the sky from the stars,
blinking in the lunar brilliance,
I cut myself and kiss the scars.
 
 

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Nick Kellaway 
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