asio

 

asio

i once called in a sighting

of drones the size of beetles

i was lying on my back

looking up the sky

they flew in formation

not like insects swarming

i feared intimations of trouble brewing in Naarm

the time of palestine

i'm fey & focussed on healing & saving lives

i thought: better to look a fool than say nothing

ethics & patriotism

is intimate

call me what u want

what i saw looked fishy

i had no idea what it all meant

i couldn't live with myself

if i turned a blind eye

& something bad happened

that's what it is to be a man

a man in a land of blind deaf dumb children

no cigarettes no money

everytime i talk to my mate Ben

i hear a typewriter recording me in the background

i am not a security threat

i'm a democrat

few else seem to be

i lost the innocence i had looking into the wide blue yonder

i don't wanna lay on my back any longer & look up

sad dreaming 

genocide

in prison

a poor man dies

i left it a year to talk about it

to give em time to investigate

i don't know why i'm like this

no one ever taught me what to do

a seer without a teacher

irish blue

got a problem with that?!

i do 

i feel like shit

damned if i do

damned if i don't

but a woman looked me in the eyes & smiled warmly

& for a moment everything's ok