Nicholai Vmir
Illustration: Greedy Pig, by jamorro
Double-Bartered Dreams
April 6, 2014
Thrust up
self-made
a concrete fortress
cackles in the
thunderhead.
Its scenic views
of sweet earth
bound to carry on
inspired toxic cannons,
cruel fixations,
double barter.
The dreams of
little minds
sank empty emeralds
into yawning slums,
joined nepotistic
orgies, flattened martyrs
to the bottom line.
All parties raging
thirsting desperately to
sleep in hell.
The dreams of
overflowing wallets
suckled off a
bloody orb,
fulfill the undead
manifesto: dogs
eat dogs.
Copper heads will
roll and clang
until the pluming ashes
settle.
Down here
the champagne rains
and burns, the soil
shrivels, people
lose their faith
and no one learns
that only legion voices
carry up through
clouds and avarice to
free the golden sun
from thoughtlessness.