16 and Other Poems By Jake Cosmos Aller Index
Heading Back to the Past While the rest of the world Embraces the energy of the future Our great denier of the truth Wants to boldly take America back To the 19th century era of oil, and coal Yet perhaps it does not matter in the end As long as we have one another We will overcome The darkness will flee the land It Has Been Done Before Before Trump's Wall There were many other walls The Berlin Wall The Great Wall Hadrian's Wall All the walls of the ancient world All failed To keep the enemies out The enemies of freedom The enemies of the state Still came across the border To loot, steal, rape and plunder And nothing could stop The flood of history The Grim Reaper Is late the grim reaper is late he is behind his quota so he unleashes the ravens of death the ravens of despair the ravens of madness they spread out all over the world infecting all with madness as the world descends consumed by hate the grim reaper smiles his sardonic grin thinking of all the souls he will harvest that day as he carries out the mandate of his satanic majesty The House of the Damned deep in the woods in the swamps of the deepest bayou lies an old abandoned cabin few have ever visited it looks long abandoned but there are stories legends of a creature from beyond time itself who lives deep in the swamp devouring everything he comes across But he hungers for human flesh once in a while he keeps a human slave who goes into town and drums up business for his master the hunters are recruited and they are brought to the house where they are commissioned to go into the woods and hunt down prisoners and shoot them dead and bring back the bodies for the bounty and the hunt is on and the prisoners are caught and the monster of the deep swamps has a feast and the hunters are added to the fire a few are left alive zombies under his control and so the house of the dead continues to haunt the deep swamps Searching for God searching for God a homeless man just another broken down
soul and then I see him and I know and sometimes The rest of us SLEAZE Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Nothing but Sleaze Surrounds me 24/7 S L E A Z E Led by the evil Sleaze King King Donald Trump the one true sleaze King The Sleaze King from TV Are we doomed to live In a world run by sleaze kings And ruled by sleaze values Are we addicted to sleaze And need our sleaze fix daily As we turn on the sleaze TV And see nothing but sleaze Oozing out of our TV sets? SLEAZE 2 Sleaze surrounds us 24/7 Lots of sleaze on the TV Everywhere we go nothing but sleaze All the time 24/7 sleaze rules the air Zappa had it right calling it the slime Everything is nothing but slime oozing out of our TV's God is in his cosmic control room The ultimate situation room Where here he watches over mankind 24/7 One day he reads About Korean protesters Protesting the operation of Emergency helicopters Because they're too noisy they stir up dust and damage their properties And are just inconvenient as hell just too bloody inconvenient the protestors are demanding that the helicopters be grounded Disregarding the fact That they save lives Given the hellish Korean traffic conditions God is furious at the callous attitude The casual disregard for human life And the pettiness of the protesters He calls up his chief angels And reads them the recent articles All of the angels Are furious at the callous attitudes of the protesters God calls the grim reaper His contractor who handles the details of death God says I have a commission for you The Grim reaper had read the article As he too monitor the world 24/7 He laughs and says I know what to do Obviously they all have to die In an horrific accident and can't get to the hospital in time Because they are stuck in traffic Now you're talking God said But I want you to break protocol Just before they die show up And explain to them why They are about to die That would be poetic justice God said And you know I'm all about that Everyone laughs God has a sense of humor after all The grim reaper mordantly salutes the boss And goes about his grim task Out Law Lady of the Night One wild moon lit night On the tail end of a Friday Night booze run I found myself Twenty drinks too sober In a bar in the mean streets of Bangkok Drinking my way to Hell Just as fast as I could And on the stage Dancing her soul away Was the most beautiful creature In the known universe Dancing with an attitude That could kill an elephant in heat She looked so fine Made my eye balls hurt As I started at her naked body Admiring the curves In all the right places And her ass called to me Telling me deep dark erotic desires Inspiring carnal thoughts And hopes that she would be mine For the right price And I stared at her And she smiled with an evil seductive smile A true succubus from hell itself And she gave me a knowing look And I knew that I was hooked For a night of wild libertine passion As I devoured her Making wild passionate love All night long Even if it meant That I would be selling my soul To the devil himself Last Woman on Earth The last woman on earth Stands in a deep forest Contemplating the end of the world The end of civilization The end of time itself She stares out at the dark forest Watching the world reclaim itself Watching mankind fade away into dust The last woman in the world Clutches her bible against her chest Wondering why God had forsaken her She screams out to God But no answer Only the silence of the wilderness And the silence in her heart The end of the world Came over night Only she survived the final bio plague She fled the crumbling ruins of the city Sought refuge in the forest And found she could not die And she wanders the world Looking for survivors And so the world ends And mankind fades away |