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Martial Music
Save the stars and soldier’s Mars Sky at first was black Xanthine/xanthous bursts shove the dark back Wobbling hallucinatory buttercups light up false dawn attack From gloom emerge doom Send soon to tomb They got tac tics Moving fast like Tic Tac UFO what you don’t know could fill a show Another night attack Barely…
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Virtues
Rome’s most powerful man his notes taken His privilege does not exempt him, he must awaken Man is not built for comfort, to be warm Man is he who flies best in storm Impediment to action new action found Virtue not man made his missives resound To have no obligation yet duty feel Like bronze…
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A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Quality book from Tramp Press. Highly recommend this lyrical masterpiece. Very unsettling. Written plainly, purply only when gothically appropriate. It’s a literary chiller slash work of historical scholarship. It reminded me of Sara Perry’s Melmoth with a feminist bent. The book concerns a woman as she undergoes the trials, tribulations and ecstasies of motherhood, during…
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Ens Primum Cognitum
How can a man proclaim to love wisdom if he has not left the place of his birth for Athens and dwelled there in a house called Sofia, therein poring over the texts of ages and inheriting the crown of owls. If the Internet were to disappear overnight, imagine the difficulty one would have convincing…
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Revenge
My life a mountain, it’s Greek climesAn island of poet kings old rhymesDays of the dog, a corpse consigned to the bogRises up coated in peat slime.His veins are emptyHis pains which in his life drove him insaneGone spun away like wind vanesHe will kill plenty, fold twentyHis gaze still insane he trainsSights on them…
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