Dungeness Powerstation


from the ABC set Urban Heroes

Perched on the ancient shoreline where
all the beauty of your sterile love
within the salty wasteland scrub
flows within me. Here, where a crazy child,
a fallen angel pays homage in this
her last pilgrimage of dust.

Oh God, it is despair.
The fishermen have their backs to a dying core
a structure spawned from yesterday's daydream
heated, baked, parched
yet now enshrined - the thin salt spray.

You said blow stigma from water
Not drawn from the sea, who are you anyway?

I am sick, can't you see ?
Dying from the corporeal chemistry of my diseased mind.

I need to buy a wooden house
in the great shadow of nuclear awe
spend the last gasped hours of life with death.

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