Anxiety in Mosaic

BEASTS

18 And lead me far far away into your omniscience, Into your eternity and into that wondrous power Which only a man’s bosom friend is privy to That, as you slowly sail Across this overhead sea of grey, I may behold you at midday without squinting Without going blind. BEASTS In this animal kingdom Here, where jackals eat jackals And cub devours mother hyena, On full stomachs Predators prowl still the jungle For prey In this animal kingdom Here, where giant tapeworms of insatiability Reside deep down the desires of beasts And appetites run wilder Than wild boars in dense wilds, A hunter heads home Bleeding from a damaged conscience, gun in hand And his own brother man Slung over his shoulder: Quarry for the long-throated In this animal kingdom Here, where some self-proclaimed kings of beasts Rival one another Just to be entitled 19 To that great dishonour of most supreme savage under the sun, A covetous and noisy bald eagle Sits atop sky-scraping sequoias, trusting in God And wondering how many sunsets more to go Before losing its crown To become just a face in the crowd. In this animal kingdom… This animal kingdom Of nations THE LOST’S PRAYER Our dollar Which art of the Devil Hollowed be thy name, thy slavedom come Thy ill be done on Nooremac as it is in Erebus Give us each day our daily gripes And deceive US All stupid asses As we believe in dross to amass Around us And lure us more into damnation As thy believers lust for evil For thine is this skindom The power for the gory Forever but never, Amen ...