The Drawing of a Poem
A blank space
plated in acrylic veneer,
dark and green
Next a bag o’life brimming with Tibetan rocksalt
Peppered across the surface like a fine spice
Adhesive? Fuck knows. Art is free
Saturn, life-like with Cassini shadows
once heralding in the natural proto-age
of dystopia now closing shop but slowing still
seen from the icy blue and cracked
surface of Mad Europa
and, of course, the stars
like tippexed miracles in a sky
otherwise darker the a broken computer screen..
They light up for billions of miles, often more than
one; clusters careening, cannibalising their kin
Planets as a septagon of minotaurs
Eternally hunting their own in a maze built for
The extinction of the self
You see, I can’t draw for shit
But you get the picture