Tag: alchemy
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Coughcaught every dog day has its dog day
Adam apple in throat caught claret-handed, snake a-shoulder She asked was I holding, already knowing from the capacity of my coat She sat on said coat in my cold colt Peugeot, left it sticky, spilled Coke. Dog days living Cujo close with the blood-coated and deranged coterie Endeavouring to leave Measureless nebuchadnezzars of unpleasant ouzo…
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Ailing emperor of my life
Summer in Dublin, I’m Sulla and I’m out pulling Bookish ones down from Glencullen, staying with cousins Or mad buzzers up from Belmullet, just out for the chugging Fulla suds snorting toboggan terrain Shouting Up De Flats, yiz cunts, at students from Spain congregating At the entrance to the lane where I’m selling MDMA Hero…
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Growing the additional eyelids required to enter the Red City
At night, my narrowed mind pilum flights far from the ward Toward some blissless, harrowing land full of listless history Strange manner, odder banner Blinding wind and blistering sand Fissures hissing, a scorpion’s vicious arrow stinger never missing Shadowless as prissy-making unsunned climes yet all the while An ever-prodding sun’s formative rod rots beginners before…
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Rapt, yours
My clean waste basket near collapse Stapleless paper crumpled like granddad’s skin pre-ashes Full of bad starts and hackneyed facets Sections even darting eyes noticed were absolutely shite I hadn’t the excuse of being out of practice nor past prime I was simply ass slime To be used as example of what not to write…
Alchemisland 