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Sound effects when I walk
Cracking knees limbs joints fingers hips Producing mellifluous rhythmic crepitus Shuffling crypt walker Living aborted, death’s daughter I walk, sound like falling detritus When I leave and it won’t be immediately You hear bones pealing as I peel myself Raising swears, eyes ceilinged Moving as one mired in grief Shuffling unappealingly as through porridge A…
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Horse
My sable horse one who cannot be forced Endorsing tenets Horses can but be lead to water Never made drink, shadow-cowed Bucephalus. What horses think or deign to say mark truthful Speed of which horses are capable vehicle’s metric and zenith It is a horse’s endowment when a man has a big penis Ribald piebald,…
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Get off the fags, Seussy
Asked Dr Seuss to stop smoking but he didn’t Emergency room, morning 25th; how Grinch stole Christmas Cat in the Hat developing catarrh The Lorax with suspected pneumothorax.
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Greying river
Of an age such that Raging river hasty Finally assuages. No more will I like a wild spring glaive some hidden glade in the Swabia No more am I the geese-shadowed Ganges, hungry for burnt bodies I am a puddle of muddled language, petrol-pastelled I am a fruit pastille choking a kestrel I am Thoth’s…
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A box of old things
Millennials scrolling mousewheels to squeaking exhaustion Trawling through old photographs No loose hard copies in shoeboxes beneath tossed beds Or kept locked up like anchorites in red Afternoon Tea biscuit tins Name, date and place written on the back in red From moment of penning until dumping upon death unread Jpegs of epochs where I…
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