Tourist by Neil Fawcett

You’re round with a red face
grey pate and a bald patch
that glints in the sun.
You eat drink and laugh

watched

by the hungry
who have horror in their eyes.

Let them eat you
and the apple in your mouth.

Dissonance Cognitive by Neil Fawcett

Bank Food by Neil Fawcett

They feed us on the banquet of the dead./
Food rotten when first served decades ago,/
now fluffed with mould’s downy hair./

They tell us to eat this shit or die,
so we eat this shit and still we die.

Let’s die with hunger’s rat eating our insides./
Not with rotten food wrapped in the mould/
Of age old lies.

The Immortal Mosquito by Neil Fawcett

When dust first rose to blind the fallow mass
and Judas followed Jesus, I was there.
They crowned his head with thorns on bloodied hair
and dragged him through the streets beneath a cross.
I tried the blood that flowered on his face
and drank a drop of Jesus in despair,
but nothing in its essence could compare
to Judas blood so strong with thick distaste.
Since that time I feast Iscariot lines,
their blood bulbs grapes that burst on stony ground
too full of juice to hang upon the vines.
It grows in yards with barbs and wire around
and through the years has fed me very well.
I dine on wine matured by infidels.