Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Impact Factor 8.1458 | Vol. 8, No. 3: CLRI August 2021
Ken W. Simpson
The Church of Satan
The darkness hidden behind ignorance
supernatural and evil
devised by human minds without souls
to debase and torture
tilm the rapes and mutilations of babies
as a human sacrifice
to Satan and a fabricated Masonic God
archetypal monsters
regurgitated relics of a primitive lifetime
reborn monstrosities
degenerates to debauch and persecute.
Egalitarianism
Dispossess the corrupt and greedy
who wage war to enrich a minority
and share the proceeds fairly
among the sick and destitute
sterilise pedophiles and sociopaths
psychopaths and Roman Catholics
megalomaniacs and Masons
narcissists and Satanic cults
to rid our world of everything sinful
and create a heaven for the needy.
Left for Dead
Scan the past for future predictions
meet iconic statues of heroes
who were in fact murderous tyrants
their likeness carved in stone
recorded by historians in textbooks
for children to recite at school
about how wars were won and lost
never the slaughter of soldiers
and the family’s everlasting sorrow.
Intimacy
The abyss of opportunities is dangerous and deep
filled with trepidation and highwaymen
time travellers escaping from alcoholic nightmares
getting chosen as ghosts in Hollywood
to entertain the soldiers in Yemen and Afghanistan
and make America a greater deterrent
to lovers of hypocrisy blind to the death of children
from malnutrition as a capital incentive
to save the world from the evils of degenerate sex.
Ken W. Simpson is an Australian poet and essayist. He has been educated at Scotch College (Melbourne) and Swinburne Art School. He has taught art and began writing short stories, then switched to writing free verse poetry and essays. His poetry collection Patterns of Perception has been published by Augur Press (UK) in 2015.