Submissions by RevolutionAL (Alistair Plint)

U-PVC shrouds cheeks    
like vinyl forklift seats    
stolen for the Bobcat    
to hide diamonds
while floating  
circumferences of the law    
     
Smiling,  
“work is done”    
believing we are miners    
Having never set foot    
on open pits
It's done for blood;
sometimes money    
Just to watch  
gift-wrapped smiles
and  “thank you honey”    
     
Lips full of nylon beads    
filling Thermosetting Polymers    
blinding the eyes    
welded in place
by...

Forking out more cash
than the president has  
just to maintain life  
chews at my heart like  
vultures on a skinless  
carcass  
(though, the heart is just a shape.)  
    
Does it matter
that I’m unacceptable?  
    
Who knows yet we can label it.  
    
If they asked me to    
choose a relationship status  
with choices like  
single or    
taken  
I’d almost certainly  
ink the words  
“who fucking cares”  
to the monitor  
in permanent marker  
then...

She raises the house
hits, that last note
as the lights go down
and the curtains close
Hear the words
“encore”
erupt

Men dreaming, woman even more
"Monsieur," she says subtly to the
moustache in the front row, as she
moulds the final applause
Masterfully she demands ovation
once more

Every heart stops
Every sound ends
Eclipse lights, that theatre, the
evangelical angel sings again
erupting this, today’s performance
number four

Never a bad night
Not a sour hour
Naked...

Invented a new word today  
happened when walking  
up the hill  
Along the cobble path  
past the  
fruitless Avocado        
[a majestic tree]  
Looked at the now  
dried fresh water spring  
where many a white dove  
had bathed before;    
today, just barren and bare        
         
I arrived at the Olive  
there stood my tree  
[that I had visited so many times before]  
suffering the winter      
and the autumn before it  
To tell the story  
I needed a word  
so I...