Martin Rutley

 

Hunger Cult

The cardboard citizens of nostalgia
The paradise implant junkies
Slaves to the yellow noise of locust music
A symphony for the disney faith
Songs of analysts programming defeat
As kid astronauts snatch at the golden serpent
High above the offices of the hunger cult
Heroes of national slum fashion
Pawns to lifestyle design
Exchanging global fantasies of animal fiction
Theories for the caramel war
A television voyage through antique scams
For born-again virgins in the second escape
Under the solar masters of rebel luxury
The temporary histories of the super-elite
Media version seventy-three considered

 

Diagonal Fiction

The last of the scarecrow empires
These degenerates of Eden
Craving cowboy deformities
Easter clinics and aerosol flesh
Libido knifes for Christian vice
The dormant weapons of canine incest
Slashing photographs of punk revolutions
Of lunatic babies hooked on lipstick warfare
Of soldier killers and retribution brats
Swaying beneath autumn crowns
Dark noise glimpsed from the edge of the motherland
As Martian romances span sleeping civilisations
Diagonal fiction re-interpreted as deliverance

 

Disco Subtext

In the September gutters of
St. Petersburg 5:43 am
Twenty-second century clerks
Albino-aluminum
Sleep on slabs of vast
inhuman endings
Like redneck poets typing
pavement anthems
Regurgitated people reaching
for concrete stars
Snowflake theories staining
Raskolnikov basements
Dressed in Siberian fashion
Ritalin projects in the breathing
pages of naked books
The elaborate wreckage
of disco subtext

 

Teenage Jesus

Fast-food movies fill the snarling
abdomen of a teenage Jesus
Pushing terrorist nirvana
through talk-show slots
The Prozac tongue
of Celebrity crime
Catwalk depression
in recovery
Replica girlfriends selling
Hollywood affection
Rehab kisses for
night-shift husbands
Like ephemeral Dylan re-writing
Johanna into ballet school sit-coms
Toy nightmares for a comic-strip audience
loaded on Times square goodbyes

 

The Cartoon Vandals

Servants to the reptile priest
Saviours of the chameleon guard
The cartoon vandals abandon salvation
Blessed with the deviant heart
Condemned to corporate revelation
Distant machines define strategies
The apologetic victims of protocol
In ritual extremes of divine illusion
Porn factories cage the severed youth
As pretend Angels bleed neutral despair
Sacred structures of the data engine
Let primate frequencies seduce extinction
Analogue pleasures stripped sterile
Automatic death contained within
As distortions violate ancient systems
Of the integral shapes of isolation

 

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