Sunday, 30 August 2015

THE COMPLETE NICK ARMBRISTER POETRY COLLECTION Volume 2 1996 - 2013

THE COMPLETE NICK ARMBRISTER POETRY COLLECTION Volume 2

1996 - 2013


Copyright 2013 Nick Armbrister

ISBN - 978-1-291-66311-2

Butt

They met
at the
back end
of never.

Spider Squash

A spider crawls nearby, startling you as you doze.
In a flash you react, your hand shooting out and squashing it dead.
Happiness courses in your veins.
Slowly you look at the spidery remains:
long slender see through gossamer filament legs are broken;
dozens of minute eyes are lifeless;
abdomen is detached and leaking insides.
Disgusting!
Worst of all, her egg sack is crushed.
A thousand spider eggs die.
Now you realise, its not one you killed but hundreds.
Fate decreed that the last Silver Leg spider walked past your pillow, disturbing you.
If you knew that she was the last of her kind, what would you have done?
She was a hermaphrodite, able to reproduce without a mate.
In twenty four hours she would have gave birth to a thousand baby Silver Leg spiders. Now her species in extinct.
Not one survives alive on Planet Earth.
You killed the last of her kind.
She's dead like the Dodo, extinct.
You are to blame!
All you care about in your dirty pillow and jangled nerves.

Hiroshima

In the city of light,
in the valley of skulls.
Our spirits dance.
Hiroshima.
Turned to ash.
Never again...

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