Back In Black (It Never Went Away) - Blank Verse

Chemical spaying of the black dog sniffing around my mental de-scent, 

Ureic spray marking my ligneous hide.

Lightning volts to chase away the black cloud squatted somewhere across my pate

Lithium’s little local climatic murrain.

Acupuncture needles don’t hurt as much

But the vision lying on the slab like a stuck pig, 

Banderillas sprouting in every interstitial direction from my vegetative mire 

Multicoloured, chromatic, garish markers for trepanning bullish me 

The mounted picador pricks me, pierces me, permeates me, venesecting blood, lymph and chi flow

Transfusing blood black, sable, onyx and jet

Black is the new black, same as the old black

Lamentation, mourning, mold

Effaced contours of female flesh behind post-nuptial veils

Death cult zealotry over purity

Cimmerian, tenebrous, atramentous, places of Stygian gloom

Chthonic cave interiors, 

Lignite, bituminous coal, crude oil excreted from Gaia’s bowels

Tar and pitch for when you cover up the gouging of mother Earth.

Jacobean black bile melancholy 

Lucifer named for the light, but his visible rays only ignited by the plummet from Heaven,

Burning up on reentry, fleeting friction match struck phosphorescence.

Black heart black as sin, Goths just playing at it

Smokey Robinson’s - Smokey really? - “The Agony and The Ecstasy”

Here come the leeches…