Keep A Watch Upon Your House

from In A Foreign Land by Gladsome Throng

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Keep A Watch Upon Your House

We come from opposite ends,
To meet upon this stage,
We look to the centre,
There is an apple on a table.

We look from both directions.
From the east and the west,
It is seen as different,
From the place that we have left.

This stage creates then denies massacres,
Where pirates sneer at the princess,
We are told they made their own bruises.
Every injury is a sign of their madness.

From where I am standing,
I see an x marks the absence,
A deep hole that is descending
And reality is a nothingness.

Where electricity is invented,
By a self styled genius, more bizarrely,
Over and over again, each one of them
Will turn a country into an army.

A moulting shirtless emperor,
Lying mounted on a mountain,
Jaded, crazy like those before,
Making lovers from a hologram.

Not a clock ticking, hiding in plain sight,
Who will take your children’s dreams?
Who will steal them in the night?
What will be whispered before they fall asleep?

In this theatre truth is hung on a cross,
Laid down, speared, bleeding,
On this stage no meaning, reason, purpose.
A crowd believes whatever it is seeing.

This day, who could be the serpent,
And who could be the mouse?
No faith in locks, pray for strength,
Keep a watch upon your house.

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from In A Foreign Land, released January 1, 2024

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Gladsome Throng Sydney, Australia

Gladsome Throng, the coming together of the poetry and voice of Valerie Cameron with the soundscape of Robert Cumings, is greater than the sum of its parts.

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