#26 - any other day

26^th January

26

any other day

or

change the tone

that’s the choice

fly the tatter elsewhere flag

smoke our stars away

who knows the place?

who decides?

hot fire

cold fire

fly the wind

sad to nation

come and go

burn village, crops

they never were

a bash for the vanishing

chatter and

imagine aliens beam down

a locust lot to party

you cannot even list what’s gone

insurance mob will laugh it off

and out of court

no one will remember

one among the kingdoms

fine print

(they come and go like species

faster)

still wave the tatter flag to be

mix up the blood so we’re one

but some remember death done to

imagine casting off a continent

slap on a new coat

theft!

you have no grander scale

left a window open

whole of the house was

windows, doors

tatter to air

treasures all around us burn

any map is treasure

can’t even see the neighbours

can’t see the creatures now

mourn the billion under words

gone in the fires today

Shorter version:

any other day

or

change the tone

that’s the choice

fly the tatter elsewhere flag

smoke our stars away

imagine aliens beam down

a locust lot to party

you cannot even list what’s gone

insurance mob will laugh it off

and out of court

no one to remember

treasures all around us burn

any map is treasure

can’t even see the neighbours

can’t see the creatures now

mourn the billion under words

gone in the fires today

the pickouts

any other day

or

change the tone

that’s the choice

fly the tatter elsewhere flag

smoke our stars away

.

imagine aliens beam down

a locust lot to party

you cannot even list what’s gone

insurance mob will laugh it off

and out of court

.

can’t see the creatures now

mourn the billion under words

gone in the fires today