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What I learnt from Nessus
Player of games, ancient of days Work in poker, can’t even play Maintain ways of surviving, even thriving Dividing and conquering, wearing disguises Divine walking mortal, sharing horizons with nobody. No lies exist Everything iteration of mind, infinite variation Tongues desiring to know words from faraway lands No scarcity of misunderstanding at home No shortage…
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BRITS ABROAD
Came here on holiday to get away from blokes like him Beer foam moustache crowning upcurled lips creased asneer More lines than Newcastle’s jersey designer had in mind Tab-green fingers pick away at a full English, Benson same time Glass of white wine nine in the morning or else they’ll get divorced Forcing her to…
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WOLF LUCK
Bloodlust of a famished wolfpack Attacking reckless ruthless abandon Flesh abandons bone Floundering in blood which fountains out of the shot through Flowering of lead-showered shoots Tendons like pink vinculum in a camp kid’s sum book Back to fang, rock, ape rage, tech stone age.
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Retiring the Lifetired
Turok how I brandish in retirement homes, sand off a few dinosaur noses Here on council premises banishing grannies Help to dust form these old bagged bones Go through them like covid, dead before Bovril’s done Standoff at reception resolved quick elbow hits like a brick Clock-ticking everyone has a bum ticker Flick through first…
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Undying Climes
Undying lands grander than Atlantis, full of familiar hands banded again Reforged oaths, all strewn oats sewn to zenith Motes animate light in flight, delighting alongside buoyant satellites winds shake free from dandelions Gardeners in austere gabardines with swan wings sweeping aft peacock-equal Spending dreamful epochs raking rocks into straight lines before God’s throne and…
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