Agent Orange
all this red dust in the sky : gets in your eyes : doesn’t irritate or itch : but plays tricks : on what you know is there: but feels like it isn’t : or can’t be
for instance : that crop : can’t : just can’t : be pink : nor the leaves of that tree : bloodred : yet that is what your head tells you : you shake it : worry you’ll break it : it’s all a toxic shock of neon colour : & you’re brain’s in pain : & you wish your mum : would come back to life : again : or that it would rain : not necessarily in Spain : but on this astral plane : it’s no fun guys
& as i start : to understand : what’s happening to me : Stella has thrown : a shoe full of water : in my face
thanks i splutter : as my thoughts : stop rhyming : resume some sense : some ability
i think that dust : is a drug : like LSD : or magic mushrooms
you don’t say : i snake bite at her : even though it’s not : at all : Stella’s fault : suddenly feeling hungry