Monday, 17 May 2021

New Poetry: Sambuca Soldiers by Victoria Louise Butler

 Shots are fired.

Acrid fumes the first aggressors,

nasal membranes the first victims of

a methylated madness of intensified attack.

Hands to mouth in a two-for one march of military precision.

No mercy.

Purple-proof uniforms psychedelic in a neon gloaming

of the Friday night mission.

Aniseed bombardment

No prisoners, no survivors. 

Seek and destroy

Sobriety

firing into flame on the last orders of Sergeant Zippo.

Coffee bean berets

burnished,

burnt on the bar; the pyre of Monday’s forgotten good intentions.

Collapse close,

Expected,

Certain.

Left, right, left right… 

Sambuca Soldiers on Parade.

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