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How it came to be toppled so
Some vague blight Decimated harvests worldwide Thick smokes choked the sky Until only manmade light lit a life Life and living very different Little deference given to wise history Once the seas boiled Like the black-bellied cauldrons of old industry.
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Reminiscence
Princess-shaped holes in windscreens Holds true which wins days, engleams Wrists, better conveys man’s glory. Erecting middle fingers And launching fists at God’s face.
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Coughcaught every dog day has its dog day
Adam apple in throat caught claret-handed, snake a-shoulder She asked was I holding, already knowing from the capacity of my coat She sat on said coat in my cold colt Peugeot, left it sticky, spilled Coke. Dog days living Cujo close with the blood-coated and deranged coterie Endeavouring to leave Measureless nebuchadnezzars of unpleasant ouzo…
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Ailing emperor of my life
Summer in Dublin, I’m Sulla and I’m out pulling Bookish ones down from Glencullen, staying with cousins Or mad buzzers up from Belmullet, just out for the chugging Fulla suds snorting toboggan terrain Shouting Up De Flats, yiz cunts, at students from Spain congregating At the entrance to the lane where I’m selling MDMA Hero…
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Attention beggar
Nazarene distinct Adhesive gazes slink to my rays and stick to my preying face My father’s advice on my wedding day: Only the winked at should know a wink has happened. Took a Wing-Chun practicioner down, had him tapping I’ve got lines, master of microdots and dashes I did have weed but I breathed it…
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