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Grenades

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"Grenades" When Humpty fell off the wall she stood over the mess that bad egg left like a marauding architect she was holding two pistols the smoking guns of a life peripheral stitched up surreal where the heart sits in the middle like a key swinging constant metronome beat, click-click, like time spent running a risky poetic kingdom where music like grenades blew up and lifted pretend leaves departures like a death wish kamikaze pilot escaping from a dead plot holding onto the strings of words, lit up like neon balloons containing messages the base note revealed underneath the stained seats of bad actors fates sealed pretending a life at Freedom Saab living slipping charm like butter rubbing between the bars like soap on the tongue with Sister Christmas enabling spoilt collaboration with unsuspecting customers the orchestrated lies stumble dead and buried, white flags torn lying under the rubble cool assassins never come undone delivering their missives what's mightier than the sword belting out their golden semicolon chords the disengaged pause now released the trigger pulled, click-click, now shot like bullets from a gun the heart, a grenade cool assassins seen standing their ground steam punk for all they’re worth in their stormy cloud ridden kingdom come the heart, a grenade more lethal than sword more explosive than bullets from a gun disengaged with the engaged click-click (LadyLabyrinth / 2023) “But since he pinned you, baby You're a porcupine” “Crack, baby, crack Show me you're real”