When the lightning did flash

& the stars did weep silver

splashings of mercurial acidic

vomit down & out of the bowels

of heaven's floodgates...

The owl feathered birdman

fluttered fallen stuttered

weathered the storm of god's

violent shit storm...

And the ox that carried him

through the violence of god shit

spit & sputtered fluttered off the

edge of adulthood & crashed

plastered to the sheets of ice

that left them numbed

conquered succumbed & lost

to the world in a roll of the dice.