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thinkers
by Ben Adams
Francis Bacon is under siege
dug in
flecked with dirt
and gore in a front-line trench
somewhere

taking sips of Dutch courage

from a pockmarked flask while Hume
downs Chivas Regal and Descartes

is eating sour cheese,
lighting cigarettes trying
to ignore the endless waves of those
who live and die
blind,

who give themselves
to these bullets

who throw themselves
on bayonets

only to know
what it feels like to believe in


money
god
sex
football

something, anything
to keep the clocks ticking over

the trains running
on time

to keep the heart-mind-thinkers
running scared, on the back foot, dug in
hard...

so Ludwig plays the moonlight
as dawn breaks

and Voltaire man's the rusty
machine gun

as wave after
rolling wave they come,

determined martyrs
to the ignorant certainty
of utter fabrication.
April 2012
137