Month: Jun 2024
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Coming Back from Lunch High
High coming back from lunch, pipes in the lane around the corner Blame hayfever for red streaks around cornea Mouth breathing feeling like everyone is watching me Tie feels too tight Almost die when Mulvihill says hi as he speeds by, bald head shining under halogen lights Halitosis from the tokes I had, smell of…
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DIFFERENCES
Our great granddad’s flanks lascinated and lacerated by serrated grenade shells in fierce dawn raids Rode fridgelike tanks across perilous muddy embankments which stank of bad meat We stressed about transition year plays, played pranks, GDPR failure quiz and Bebo flashbox Played games, chasing at the wrong age through Ballaly apartments, hairs on the chin…
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H1 REPORTS
Open docs, jot down who pulled up their socks Who marched jocks down thumb-sucking? Who is dumb and did nothing? Whose trencher contents stretch credulity and chagrin ledgers? Who but an Olympian can name the next generation’s legends. Down to brass tacks, who got down to it Never show me the number before tax Unless you…
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Plane Struck By Lightning
A tale that must be told Singular in strangeness Time to unpack it all now that I’m a patient Declared legally insane Strange as Webster’s Vertical Plane Such audacious conflations of credulity all in one place, at such pace, A mind wearing such weights droops, hides its face like the plate-touching chin of blameless Gorgythion.…
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Area Seven
Lurid commandments, Fortinbras reactions Fortifying sandbanks to stop seas, plasters for gangrene They are on parade in full array in show of martial force Know now what Mam meant but too late to mention it She’s weeks dead and buried, across firerivers ferried to unmerry walled places – not Derry Street’s last house House number…
Alchemisland 