From An Old Man Behind the Times
February 24, 2019
I have not moved enough, nor moved quickly enough, although
The whacky world has moved and quickly slid away from me,
Everyday normal casuist brassy blasphemies
Go on unweeded, disregarded; - accustomed - rather twee
To be au fee insider now a person needs be snug
Confirmed in non-conformist slavish same-ish ways
Potatoes all; overjoyed at shocking, rocking earth; contentions
Folding bend all form, meaning implodes, a shattered prism
Art vandalism imitates, is pan-demotic
Glitz ululates, whoowhoos: ‘go break the mold!’
Elbows work at the outer-limits, instate misshapes, galled wounds
Iconoclasts and zealots string delirious happy-hours
Get smashed, then smash up china like at 50s fairground stalls,
Leaving the leaden clowns esteeming in the one and nines
And is there a thing left standing that remains unspotted
Rotten tomatoes splat punt former value into touch
Full in the open fey taste incubates its midden pit;
Quarterpounder - with mayonnaise from Waitrose - oven fries
Mad melodrama to be now, to freak new ground
Plough on the hoof, by chin and tooth, raise money hills
Carbuncles, wens, distempers, humpback mules, amorphous geese
Fill out their staggering cattle trains of arcane cheap pretence
Sure, sore assured they are, are in the know, regarded,
Aplomb is their broad audacity, immodesty interlarding;
How that so much was known and’s now become as if dead lumber
To which their wishworld’s bubblewrap clings weakly and dependent
Dismayed the ages wither, go down, hither doth bring-on
These broken dissipations as our fulsome supper;
Bland open mouths go swallowing bolting former herb resources,
Eat of that no-law potage gorged by Esau; crowd the scullery
Fearful have many cried end-time; have savoured to proclaim
A turn of the deadlock tumbled, so as folly meant to name
Their latter days the last - cavorts disport the giveaway
Rather, perdie, my end-time comes? - and dare I shout “Hooray!”?