Month: Feb 2026
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Call to arms
In my quaint keep, in his keeping; Exhort to action labour sore limbs My cat limns quietly by my ankle Limbs spread at Vitruvian angles Disobey the sanctions of the day Gainsay minor precepts, stay up late No place kept in Hell for late sleepers.
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Dirty secret
Nowadays admitting you’re a poet’s like Telling someone you were IRA back in the day A dirty secret whose telling betrays altogether too much of the true shape, Or that you had a teenage girlfriend back, quote, when the going was good, People look at you strangely, as well they should; The poet like bowyer…
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Lemon soul
Chasing spirits Soul Reaver Fame, fortune sole reason Busy bee, eager beaver I’ll dead beef, not teasing Dead, not leaves, falling season.
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Shards of sharp wonderglass
Evening sky’s pied tricolour like An Irish flag hiked up for war Moonrise illumes the pike-wielding ranks, who roar. Osiris eyelid green where it seems The sky could be reached A chartreuse hand sharp throughout with thorns, nest-addled Resting as a saddle does on one’s best horse Palms gorse-pricked, hands settling upon shoulderous mountainrounds. Like…
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Brief abbrev
Got no PC but PCP For me no OBE Closer ODB No APR, overdraft AIB Masked up, massive rented JCB Mass grave for you after a raid, TCB 2CBs where I keep CDs In VVS, moving boxes like MGS Grow’s like a wood, no MDF In the car, blaring KMFDM In the Phantom, no FM…
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