Eyes of glue

I was dependent 

On drugs and docs 

And bosses and pets 

And beer and love

To soothe and cool and ring 
and tender my 

Somnambulism 

The click of a button 
Put flesh on that 

You're still alive

My piquant Caligula 

You're still alive 

My hallowed Lesbia

Blazing like the washing line 

Bright light and breezes 

Whirl and court your 

Handsome beard 

In relation to you 

I am the cat 

Your warmth intimates 

My segregation 

These wild claws retract 

Like the pupils of domestication 

Slittered like a blind 

Biscuits crack 

My rasp I purr and very 

Gently watch you relapse 

Into blackness 

While I walk the walls 

And savage 

Courses plump my hackles yet 

My stomach watches 

While I hunt 

But hunger left me to my fate 
of easiness and ready comfort 
Pads my sleep 

Which your emasculating effect 

Has made complete 

Now I'm dependent on you 

For warmth 

For shelter 

For affection 

For food

Like some scabby leopard

Impotent rage 

Eyes of glue 

In a cage 

in the zoo.

21/09/17