I spent a day as King Kong,
tore up a couple of cityscapes,
shoved my toe through a skyscraper window,
hit my chest loud enough to frighten birds,
snapped my jaw back, yelled through clouds,
held an officer worker in my palm –
I could feel his shivering heart speeding up,
his spine melting like butter at the thought
nobody would come to save him.

Carl Burkitt 2024