In The Venal Colony

They took me alive

My barrel empty

In the venal colony

Mine was a life of rant and ravery

Up my ass though

I hid one bullet

And laughed

When my friends gave me a mullet

Etched on one side

The text

To Left Wing Communism

An Infantile Disorder

On the other

Basic instructions

For running A United Front

People called me anal

But I was trying to make a diamond

While my lover watched

Peter Kay

And Everyone Loves Raymond

I swore myself off revolution

But still played my part in the solution

I swore myself off violence

But not to silence

Or darkness

I fired my bullet in the sky

Like a flare

To show just how much I dared

And cared

Povey 2015