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Cityscrape
Not in one day had pagans built great Rome, strong even today, When would Her intact flower’s strength at touch’s hint decay. The rock’s proximity to the places of crossed rods, oaths of office. Crossed the coppice in odd shoes Folded neatly the clothes of an officer Cloves masked the stink of the drink that…
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Enspired
Lightbringer fell in a shock of dark-boring beams Like a dropped flashlight tumbling down a mineshaft Below, the city like a UFO crashsite. Over Dublin the hum of Guinness farts, piss and shite. Why does every second cunt who wants to write try Ulyssesisize Dublin 5? Cities unfurling as the Worm turns to spite early…
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Hesperides cider brand
Still darkness upon the deep. Day decoding Ancient disturbed midway through creation Who never picked it up again. God takes ADHD medication. Barking toward a sparking Heroin Moon’s faraway steepness. Over the good work of every infanticider The spectre of sprog-spiting Herod looms. Learning and not for the first time that I can’t handle cider,…
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Yellow fools
Daffodils are back Striving up through cracks in frosty patches Undoing their seasonal spinal snaps Regaining sap, decollapsing synapses Beautiful dope-addicted lightbulbs Lamplings and Spring champions, up early, long necked Nodding off again, wilting like tranqed sauropods.
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December forever
Cautioned that it’ll be curtains soon. Auntie interviewed a nuclear weapons specialist on the news at ten Only caught the end but it stuck. His curtness. The blows uncushioned. Struck by the speaker’s fretful manner when discussing The shameful direction we as a species had taken I sat up in bed, leant closer Oceanblue boxlight…
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