My Poetry: Hold Gently That Black Spider, Little One

'Where do the reptile eyed go
When the sun comes up?'

asks a girl holding a black spider*

‘They go where white cells clot,’
Said a gossamer boy with webbed eyes.
‘They hide in oak veneered Gothic parlours

Lined with the scabbed carcasses

Of their penniless prey;
Hide where blue-blood* turns green,
Where baying swine
Feed from plates of peasant offal.

‘Where they talk in hushed code,
Where souls turn charcoal
In dirty handshake rooms,
Where wax faces reflect disbelief
In mirrors gilded with the bones
Of forgotten corpses
Of rag and bone men

Who died as they were born
so were laid in pauper graves.”

II

Champagne priests chant

Folded double inside

Green leather backed thrones:
‘We must exorcise dissident-men‡
Pierce their eyes
With scalpel sharp pens,
Sacrifice their tongue

To our dumb Gods

So  they cannot see or speak
Of the horrors hid in glass nests

A thousand feet tall;

Retell the horror of daylight spiders,
Suited thieves in shark toothed boots
Drinking the milk-blood
From scum patinated streets

‘We must snip societal muscle
From societal bone,” they sing

In neither tune nor melody.
“Slice sinew holding flesh to flesh
Divide diseased estates,
Cause homes to haemorrhage love,
Break bonds till brother and brother

Are enemy,
Till their will turns to poison

In their hollowed cheek.
Crush these velvet black ants‡
As they scapper through OUR city.”

III

By Lucifer’s light
The angels shall descend
To save those with sacred tongue texts;
The ants will be burnt
In rusting cauldrons

By alchemists perfecting

Potions and salves to stave off death.
While the spiders dance
Around the pyre

Reciting Crowley’s rhymes

Till their loins explode with fire.
History will be rewritten
In these oak veneered Gothic parlours;
The dissidents will become
Hate figures. Scapegoats.
Demonised.
The reptile eyed

When day arrives

Return to your mother’s oak veneered womb.

So,

Hold gently that black spider,
Little one.

*the establishment/politicians
‡ the poor/working class/unprivileged