Listen

Let them speak to you

of madness of God while they

are psychotic deluded hearing

their voices frightened of you with

knives in their hands following

the wind pacing the street in

communion with traffic lights in

that lucid time when they are in

dialogue with their demon spirit

the one that leads them to those

other places

Let them speak to you

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Published – Sacred and Profane, Ed Gemma White, Only Words Apart, 2013

Photo – a sword found on Puckey’s Beach, November 2023