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Pearl Jam Guy
I see you Dad’s pearl jam shirt Facebook work listed as pint university For you it never gets better Than Yellow Leadbetter You take a red setter bus to the city center Eddie Vedder on your headphones His lyrics enter you like food, like bones Into an ogre’s gullet You never caught the header Born…
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Saki Tries Relaxing
Saki at fifty in Khaki, portly and saggy Stands by sandbags, Tommy lights a fag “Put that bloody cigarette out!” The words barely leave this mouth Before fatal fireworks appear ahead Spears of lancing light improve a sniper’s sight Sniped last sunrise goodnight demise.
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World on the March
From the vantage of a top window I watch khaki ants vanish Factions action bound make passage Leaving in jolly batches, in patchwork and motley Returning in patch and blood-blotted bandage Hand in hand the gas damaged living in the land of Nod Distant action A sense of traction, of freefall Inked names suffer no…
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Notification of Death 1915
She hears gravel level Level step of a step sergeant Loud chest his jangling medals of charge His thumb web black from repeated discharge within a yard of target He hands over a cream card, says Mrs Hargreaves my heart grieves When one leaks, indeed all England bleeds I know that he died on his…
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Angels Weakened by Chain of Flesh
They scream as weak skin shirts them “My flesh is covered with maggots and clods of dirt.” Angels made from radiance descended Light as from the halving dance of radiation And in lust were turned If a thing of flame couple with flesh, should not that flesh be burnt The fruit of forbidden urge once…
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