Tidemark

Go to Hell
in that handbasket
of your own devising, then,

pass outwith
my mind, my ken
and turn

those red-rimmed eyes
to your horizons
good for you

all hot and fevered
filled with
people

ill and yellow
sniggering,
their cantilevered

brains
too hot obsessed
to read the signs

aright, arrest their
course, and swim
against the tide

the mark of night
descending
to extinguish

those dim hordes
of basketcases
mid-stream

heading rapids
ignoring fords.
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