ELANGOVAN
Sermon On The Skyscraper
Hey you
Come here
Now listen
When I scraped the rainbow
for new-age colours
you stoned the cesspool’s
pregnant sun
when I picked my euphonic tooth
with a golden flute
you disembowelled the last bird
for soothing you to sleep
when I closed my eyelids
to open my third-eye
you stripped and hoisted
your incendiary tummy
when I taught and thought
the hide-and-seek meanings of zero
you played police-and-chief with
fiends-icons-blackstone-cross-messiahs
to fill tv screens as a neo-mythical hero
when I theorised the future
on the other side of the blackhole
you mesmerised a causeless crowd
ti wriggle with god’s rigmarole
when I peeled off the lines
on our globe
to feel every palm of hope
you cut out a jigsaw puzzle
and gave each a piece to grope
under conference tables
when I took you for a walk
through the underpass of liberty
you ejaculated best-selling graffiti
“nude walls are like nuclear heads
dangerous for society”
when I fingered the 69th floor button
to toast for solidarity
you lost the loo and pissed on the
symbol of the ruling party
so let us now at least
observe a minute of silence
for the absence of silence in our
lives
said the intellectual
prrr…
the idiot looked around
took his M16
blew off the intellectual’s bottom
for disturbing peace
and said
Hey you
Come here
Now listen