NaPM April 30, 2018

[Keith]

The Jesus factor

Not one of the bombs worked,
even the most complexed
went off like a cheap firework.

In the end it wasn't the owls,
it was the whales.
So many on the beaches
thousands more just off the coast,
they tried to warn us.

In the town a bell tower
haunts the magnolia streets
waiting for the stunt doubles to fall.
Camouflaged behind curtains
family's watch the stranger ride in
on a black horse.

Later a mother will swap
her eldest son,
for a tin of corned beef.

Keith, In the town a bell tower/haunts the magnolia streets. Lovely. Great title, great opening line. Like the apocalyptic four horseman type ending. Honest question (because I'm not familiar with all regional word choices) I've never heard complexed used as an adjective--I would use complex. Is that a regional thing? Not really critiquing just curious. Love this one, especially.

Thank you Todd, much appreciated. I always thought complexed was the past tense of complex and when speaking I would always use complexed, but that doesnt make me right. I think your use is the correct version it just feels unatural for me to use it when I mean complicated, I also thought i was using it as a verb To me a complex is block of houses or a collection of things, like I said that doesn't make me correct. its a complexed issue alright