sparks a new justice

na.

dylan thomas is dead

he’s buried out in the back yard

with ted bundy teeth marks &

a smell of rot

all his own

with the optimism of ages past

irrelevant now as it was then

but romantic hearts, candlelit & hoping that

if they prayed enough

something “good & right” might happen, it

all died along with him

so as go the wishers near the well

backwards stumbling & falling into

what they hope is a pool of dirty water below

the rank cement cracks the bones

leaving no strong person left

to climb out like daniel plainview &

walk the world anew

conscious of what drought of any “human soul”

has taken place

leaving nothing but decay & misery in its

wake,

so that priests, ministers, rabbis & mullahs alike

get dragged, face-down,

through the dirty, filthy, sewage

that sparks of a new justice

that only the electro-techno 21^st century could have brought.