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Age of the Purple Sage
Houseproud only in grim surrounds In prairie houses flux-visited, visitors disallowed, visages shrouded In shoddy barns shotgun barrels like excess wicks trimmed down with a tight-fisted vice grips Roaring howlers teem unseen in the bowerless places, ladles of xanthous sand as sugar on pancakes in dunes and mounds The powerless sun-crazed belly like snakes toward…
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Model Not Territory
Ptolemy’s model followed geocentric principles Earth as sun centre around which spheres rotate uniformly as ships in typhoons, along circles split like zodiac glyphs At the epicentre the sun housing the earth Divinely plotted prescribed orbits to fit solar alignments are called deferents These are fenced and intersected by smaller circular orbits called epicycles By…
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Cuppa
Proper tea is best left to brew Rollie on the step Drum Blue Barrys and Lyons battle to the death.
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Execution, Noble Death of Martyr Sparks Tears on Mary’s Cheek
Red the rod of punishment, testament to our eventual end Commencing with a rain of descending shells wailing like Djinn A long reign of hell unto ceaseless bloodshed Welcoming easeful death Deck slick with blood Red as runover berry punnets Yield of past melees vast upon Avast ye, cast eyes upon bold bastard William Turner…
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Deaths Less Remembered Blood Debts As Yet Untendered
Willy Mulcahy they put him to the lash, dashed through his door burnt out the gaff Laughed while flames ate at Hyena gnashers ag gáire, waited to piss upon the ash Ask where’s the cash, Paddy He answers in Irish, they answer in rifle He is tied up to the ash tree, bashed with gun…