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The Alnighter Is Over

By Christopher Barnes

I wandered joyless In a shroud With redundant Priests On welfare Remembered how I never got tired Doing the 81 With Candy And The Kisses The bitter sulphate fizz Of the plastic elastic sea At the sun’s grey rise Proves the natural has failed - Men Women Sex Time Size Birthing pain, would-be suicides Obese time wheezed on and on Memories tinkled like rusty cowbells Pouting from leather energy In boyish ritual Tactile as eye-grit On the whip of 9 I put on clothes of bygone style Pushing back to the old culture But only as I knew it