Levelling up in the North
Whooooaaaarrrrhhhhhhhhhhhah (Optional for performance)
Can you feel it? That levelling up feeling?
Let me tell you, I have hit the fiscal ceiling!
That rush of money from back benchers’ pockets.
Spine tingling, hard, in all my anal sockets!
How about you? I am feeling oiled!
Like a rusty spring you just found soiled,
Coiled down that river, liquidity (aw); making me Shiver.
Shimmering argent arrow pulled from a golden quiver.
A platinum bow shot of majestic precision.
Jubilee, jamboree; injection, incision.
Into these dark cities, sweaty, vaginas.
Strings of pearls, tossed to the swine herds.
Monkeys piss milked from pidgins’ shitters.
Not all that is gold, or diamonds; doth glitters.
© Craig Balmer
©Magic L. Bearr
The image is of an ant holding the abdomen of a fruit fly that has been stung by a parasitic wasp.
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