The Music Mafia.

They are the music mafia

Look out coz they might getcha

So underground you don’t see

The beards for the bodyshirts

Tight pants and suit jackets

Stroking chins and looking down

On your choices for JJJ’s Hottest 100

No Taylor Swift will convince you

That Father John Misty is

The best thing to happen to music

-Ever-
That Jack White is a Genius
As is Kurt Vile and Tex Perkins
Is the sexiest man in rock and roll

How do I know?

I used to be one of them

But I turned informant

Now I live under witness protection

In suburbs far from the live music scene

Black jeans and pointy shoes

Side burns and roll your own cigarettes

I am just another schmuck like you

Listening to 104.9Hitz FM

© shaun patrick green 2015

What is said and done.

What is said is said

What is done is done

There’s no going back

We can’t turn and run

The soul is laid bare

The truth will have out

When flesh is stripped

Bones leave no doubt

We tear at each other

Like dogs in a cage

Character assassins

Emboldened by rage

Love turns to loathing

Loathing turns to pity

We spiral down

Like rain in the city

Last night was brutal

Less brutal than most

You said I was a cheat

I felt like a ghost

The wine in your veins

Took hold of your tongue

Talking like a tramp

Strangling your young

You’ll kill what you love

Just to get some peace

Repeating the cycle

Of obsession and release

What is done is said

What is said is done

A trail of victims

Two cowards, one gun

© shaun patrick green 2015

Love and Antioxidants.

Raging upon waking

Our daughter wages war

Upon a material world

Not of her making

Brought into it like

A pretzel through a sieve

She has only to live

Despite her mother’s cancer
Apostrophe indicating

We “own” our cancers

But instead our cancers “own” us

Kind of like pets, or children

Which begs the question:

Are our offspring actually

Tumours externalised?

In lieu of an answer

We wage war with her

Wrestling with nectarines

Apple grenades sent flying

Pear pieces spying

Is all this fruit overkill?

We eat her blue berries

Needing the antioxidants

More than she ever will

© shaun patrick green 2015