Neon Paradise [A Cyberpunk Series]

[Lavilethorn]

Neon Intoxication


Neon hums

Honking horns

Are the anthem of this city

Drunk on its own

Neon Bliss

Paradise


No paradise is complete

Without a black belly

Without back alleys

stained by bodily fluids

Left in the shadow

Of Neon Bliss


Frailty of flesh

Replaced

With certain steel


A city that never sleeps

Kept alive

By the Neon Bliss


Bright purples and blues

Weaving their spell

Data streams

Float like Aurora Borealis


Intoxicating

Toxic air


Cybernetics

Young punks

Some dumbass got stripped

Last night


And corporates swim high above the Neon Bliss

High above the Data Lights

High above the Neon Intoxication

 

[Lavilethorn]

Neon Sea


Almost like having beach-side property

Other skyscrapers are dingies


On a sea

Of neon colors


Crystal whisky glasses warp the world

Making it look like there really are waves


Swirling of whisky shows the color underneath

Muddy brown swirling under a neon sea


Late for another meeting of the Board

Let the old farts wait


I'm working on my tan

In a two-piece suit


The calm before the storm

Red faces and loosened ties


Bishop Industries

Quality augmentations for a certain market


New face means new ideas

Quality augmentations for all


No more people overdosing on stolen drugs

Just to have a pain-free day


Bodies rejecting half-baked

Off-market argumentations


Do funerals still happen?

Or are they just dumped on the street?


Knock

Knock

Knock


My secretary

Bless her


Reminding me of the charity dinner coming up


What she is going to have to put up with

There are going to be a lot of angry old farts

 

[Lavilethorn]

Neon Craze


Neon tape blocks off a dark alley

:CAUTION: Do not cross:



A cop goes over the area

With a dark light

Grimace on their face

The neon blues and purples

Reveal all the crimes against humanity



They're looking for DNA

Dark Nasty Avenue

Is what I'd call it



I'm careful with my step

something reeks of shit

Neon tape distorts when parted

Not much of a warning there



A flash of the badge

They leave you alone

Mostly



Drags of cigarettes

Light the alley like fireflies

Better smell than the usual perfume

Of urban decay



My little firefly joins the flock

Standing over white tape

Forensics' FLASH

Darkness



If you look up

You can just make out

Neon lights of the upper city



We're on the shit

The kind of shift

You need at least three showers



To get the stink off

Get the dirt off

Get the feeling off

FLASH



They found an ID

A girl named Bianca

With a needle in her arm

Third one this week

Must be a new craze