Straight On Poem by jim hogg

Straight on, down a dead end street,
Down the throat of life's sweet dream
Get swallowed whole by innocence,
Get eaten by the folks you meet

Straight on like a taser dart,
Fifty thousand volts of art
Just like a chip inside your head,
To tell you when to stop and start

Straight on to the ticking bomb,
To big ideas, walk the dog
To myths like our democracy,
Vote Roland Rat and ditch the lot

Straight on like an open blade,
An empty house, a rabbit snare
A window breaking in the night,
The words you didn't want to hear,
A moon beam straight into the sun,
A bullet from a careless gun


Straight on, with no fashion sense,
No goodbyes and no last dance
A marble from a catapult,
A quiverful of simple plans

Straight on into life's great wall,
Right through into life's great fall
Then down the chute and up the drain,
Recycled into something small

Straight on past the next surprise,
Seeing stars through starry eyes
And straight into a web of whys
To find the lie that satisfies

Straight on through the winning tape
And off the cliff into the waves
The mystery of all we're not,
A hooded crow, a lonely walk
The rail beneath the bullet train,
The fragile sense within a brain


Straight on into history,
Skidding at you down the street
Tomorrow's just a yesterday
We're never quite prepared to meet

Straight on like a butterfly
Searching for a net of lies
Across the fields of promises
Where every kind of vulture flies

Straight on through the great taboo;
Very soon there's nothing new
And all you hoped for hunts you down,
To benefit the chosen few

Straight on through the universe,
The blood of all our children spent
And riding on the broken wave
We never think of what they've lent
They're in the wind and swinging free,
As we dance round the gallows tree


Straight on like unbroken glass;
We know how to fix the crash
We detonate good will for cash,
Because we think all things must pass

Straight on to the latest craze
To empty us of emptiness
And knock the walls down, welcome in,
Spectators from the internet

Straight on like we know what's straight,
Something like the figure eight
We're tumbling dice, we're playing blind,
Down by the river on a date

Straight on like you've broken through
And know exactly what to do
But all at once there's no-one there,
For in the end there's only you
A moonbeam straight into the sun,
A bullet from a careless gun

Straight on into you... straight on,
.....straight.... on through

Straight on like an ego trip,
An iceberg, a sinking ship
Straight on like it's no big deal,
Just like a performing seal
Straight on like a falling bird,
Full of lead to show we're tough
Straight on like a harpoon-line
Hooked into the flesh of time
'Til suddenly you realise
It's you that's fighting for your life

Straight on into you... straight on,
.....straight.... on through

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