the morning called the night a liar as low risk expectations grew higher and the safe blue map spread out redder and somewhere out there i bet theres a cross on fire and here the town crier had never felt so alone and leaving his home he gagged on the news and he gazed at his shoes and he wept he'd not slept and to not have to speak and say he threw his shiny bell away onto a liberals astroturf lawn whod got up early especially to mourn to get used to being invisible and to practice beingconspicuously miserable for when the cameras came and he upped his game with useless analysis and endless words all teal piss and hangover turds in the suitably sad moan of this dimmer switch dawn and the prius on the driveway couldnt have saved us anyway and the town crier found a wetherspoons to pour bombay gin on his wounds and there he sang delta blues for the zero hour shift workers and the unloved sex workers and for all the uncertain lovers and all the worried lovers and all his tinted brothers and all the single mothers and all his turban sisters and all the thirsty children and all the hungry children and all the unborn children whod pop out of the global lottery into plenty or land thats empty and know no other way till their last day and the town crier resigned for the health of his mind he wasnt old he had time to get out there and find somewhere where theres something better to say and whatever and anyway he sang what a fucking day . . . and all the underclass couldnt give an arse business as usual when you live in a urinal and all the trustfund rats and all the fat white cats who followed the freelance piper that acid dream of the gipper had all glued their blinkers on gave up free thinking as one and coughed up and shat out their unleashed desire thats been on a fast in the root cellar and they were calling out 'at last !' knee deep in assassinated bees like canute in rising seas holding up the locker room keys to the rotten empire that balances over a pit of the past on a high wire wobbling in the wind of words only the angry really heard and now its all nuclear breeze and hard rain border walls and arm-stars again and old leaders are suddenly shadows mumbling 'well how could we know ?' and now no ones knows where to go and from out the banished chasm that free speech wouldnt let us fill in had come old school populist manipulation punctuated now with the wet bark of a rapists orgasm as the mad gibbon of armageddon touches all the women when he should be in prison and highbrow derision is no pragmatic solution so lets go to hell but might as well mobilise that liberal army with its printed benevolence and kind artillery and see if that does any good at all anyway