Tag: alchemy
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Go At It Agin
Master’s hammer on the table in the shadow of the mason’s apron Like a fleshbound book brown and thick, a brindled front Font of the sink he vomits into fond of drink, cider stink the carrot-clogged sink sings out for rinsing. Ag rince head ag snámh, no control of my lámh I only had seacht…
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Start With Or
Your every sentence commences with an ‘or’ commensurate with no I feel nothing like a finger blacked by snow Why ask? It’s a no, just go and later apologise Your problems a minimised and mine magnified under trial I once provoked in you fine feeling, blood tinged with wine of evening, now I rouse bile…
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Green Hell
Vietnaming names they blacked out of docs, alphabet black ops Men sweat so much they’re made of salt Heat trapped in by a verdant vault Riddled fronds mark where they repelled last night’s assault It’s so hot the gunmetal boils, hotter than I ever recall Lightless flame and flameless light, the blameless dead in the…
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Apocalyse When
Apocalypse when Hard to say, Marty took a hearty Francis bored, cajoling exotic birds for cutting room rinds. No pyrotechnics when the president comes Manilla envelopes boxed book depository, lead spread lifeshedder the cranial suppository acquainted with a smack brain matter and tarmac That’s how we do when the president comes. Heard mooing the apocalypse…
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Trysting and Resolved
Crying pistols at dawn down the dual carriageway Finger heavy with a jewel conferred marriageways Your strange ways vex me and these are strange days Blocks of sun-stealing flats where the bowler used to be Bowling for every birthday, arcade games when we’re sixteen Two quid pops at House of the Dead, to reload point…
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