Tag: alchemy
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Blisteringriver
This river a custard-covered rope we’ve been asked to climb up Ship’s pilot invites me to call him Mike, he’s got a line of dots Running from his neck down his spine, signifying with which tribe He’s in alliance, he drives, smokes, swears and swats away flies They alight him long enough to survive, then…
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HOMECOMINGPARADE
Coming home, like a feared spouse from jail Keep telling myself I’m coming home, leaving this place Nine men die on the trail The remainder, authorities cannot trace.
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Tropictropic
In lush tropics because frequently my associates drop whilst shopping Freakily, all reported a pattern, a repeating frequency they suspected Mattered if that did not make them sound mad as Hatters: Number 23 Hats off to them, R Hattersley, for asking, mad bastards Aesop steady slowgoing like Conrad’s boat Setting off from the Cape of…
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The Harassed Athena’s Last Hurrah
Climbstherigging Murphy out of Portrush must be part-monkey Announcing from the nest he climbed the loss of sight of land, full blue Climes, environs named after Cancer the crab like my dad I wasn’t raised badly but wanted badly out of that pad First chance I had signed my name to a ship’s roll and…
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SCRAPPN
What now cunt Always been the litter’s runt Barging pushing to the front Warnings uttered, you were out to lunch We were hunched over scraps building crafts made to last I built a large barge from birch, bars and bitumen, survived the flood Done with your bitching, dropped where you stood Puddle of a man…
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