Envisage | Anthony J. Langford

The seconds drift
Into time
While the fools play the field
And waste theirs.

The risk takers
Run the gantlet
While the peacekeepers
Struggle
To salvage the innocent.

As a consequence
Few battles appear worthy
Short term fixations
Do not equate
To long term goals.

So we grin, thumbs up
Dicks flapping in the fallout
And nipples tapered
Until we beat ourselves senseless
Waiting for a brand new day
Which inevitably rolls into play
Yet never as ‘sunny side up’
As we’d like it.

Anthony J. Langford lives in Sydney, writes novels, stories, poetry and creates video poems. He is a 2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Some of his recent publications include Vayavya, Subtopian, Perihelion and The Blue Magazine. He works in television and has made short films, some screening internationally. A novella, Bottomless River (2012) and a poetry collection, Caged without Walls (2013) are out through Ginninderra Press.