Fourth of JuLIE
Between two hilltops grassy and cleanThese eyes from afar fixed on a scene obscene
A kalaidescope of red, white, aquamarine
Sandwiched in the volcanic ambiance
Wisps of sweat vaporized on sunny white porches
Unknownst to them the heat was of defiance
Out they congregated with their asymmetrical torches
A crackling flame flew nigh
Spread like a bird of paradise
Electrifying the tranquil sky
Clear and brutally concise
Shattering glass with a thousand methane KABOOMS
Shackling each house, room within room
Chinese fortunes smeared, warning of impending doom
And in surged the bodies, in spurting, mangled platoon
The glitch rose against rainbow slivers
Voices trilled and yellow teeth shivered
When the resonating behemoth of war emerged
Splashing a sea of misery onto the purged
The repercussions grew louder still, it seemed
A few hurrays muffled by the Devil's hot hoof
Stomping the delicate clouds, angry and aloof
While scents of egg shells and burnt pork screamed
This is a place of death
A black dream
Where the miserly hid in their sheath
Of life set hard as frozen cream
Atop the purple hills
Stained with mauve, gold and gall
Faces watched both aghast and enthralled
For even misanthropists shed years of scald
Blood, the liquid still spills
Down through caves of hate it mills
The barely born, in betweens and old, aged as wine
Caught on the hot wire of life and death divine
Clouted and caged by serendipitous teeth
That stretched and gnawed on their fleshy seives
White hands stretched pink
Reddened necks throbbed
Blue veins thickened
A winded flag sobbed
The town was engulfed in a beatific compulsion
The gracious earth shook, trees quivered in repulsion
As shreds of skin and entrails stifled the breeze
Barbeques upturned, ladies sniffled and sneezed
These were the ordained lights of flesh
A wild display of subservience 'neath a star speckled sash
Of a mournful night
Where in the velvet blanket, Mother Midnight choked on human ash.
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