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Inheridance
Uranus didn’t like his kids, passed that onto Saturn Fathers give sons unwanted boons; cruel cosmic pattern. Life is a spear, long hard and kills you Life is a short walk to the graveyard you’ll go to Life ceaseless self-crewing cruise Life palimpsest of successive bruise Life endearing mystery, quest for goldsouled alchemy Life like…
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Farlorn
Feeling feelingless, she sags like a cut strings mannequin A framed picture of a happy memory she regrets, never trust a man again A woman’s skin, that woman, thin but far from thin skinned the old workboot Stretching leg to locker, hooks a prayer bead on her foot Pillow at her belly, comfort of mass,…
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Doing Road
Eats road like Cormac McCarthy’s shredder, goes like a V2 My arrival causes stress, like an imminent #metoo More options than two twenty sided dice More waiting holes than household fulla mice Veto over your life, a Don, only bam from my acme mallet Junkie viking funeral on a Tesco palette Screeching halt, landing hard…
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Midnight Things
Midnight shape of horrible love Improfound improprieties ignobility ingenious igneous infallibility inessential ipsissimus inchoate iridescentdestitution ignatius ingress investiture inseam instep out of step U ugliest vowel You fairest nyad, pearl diadem holding salt droplets fairer than diamond Assaulting sensuality radiating from your death-moist stinger Macehead of your tailtop, baleful but tameable Midnight sound of falling…
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Govt
Parade of haemophiliac leaders, left tending cheeks like cutlets losing form in deep time Tipped back heads allow privileged nostrils to sharkfin the air, an element of their inheritance Their clotless blood, their alien dentistry, Gigeresque facial symmetry Orthodontics by the Mengele Institute for the Furtherment of Argentinian Dental Order
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