Tag: alchemy
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Hungover curmudgeon
Still hot on his measured breath and belch He fought to quell the waking before it reached his legs. Cheap cider’s stench cordite-acrid. At length He drew up and stretched like a pauper’s penny Rose and before long threw up. His life become a black hole Such that might interest Hawking and Penrose. Whenever he…
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Homemade luck
I’m that boy who, because he wore trousers that he had received That very evening On which he turned eighteen, which him as adult delineated, Could not board the lifeboats, Could but bawl as they noised away emptily, Full of women and children like the thoughts of soldiers. The clock ticks over, you can’t fix…
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Crushed lamb
Living Lapvona Bull run in Pamplona in runners Sorry, mate, that’s a bummer I can bumrush I can run away faster than any security-afraid teenage skater Silk in my pockets like I robbed the best stock during the panty raid Raiding the pantry of a Goddess, trying to find the seeds for fame Trying to…
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Bo th
I score, both us eat Eyesore I saw So I bolt Bolt-quick to dip Spring from the bolted-down seat With a force that almost rips it from the floor Out onto Bolton Street, past DIT, five to one my dose The Doors know Faster than a boulder chasing Indiana Jones When a cursed idol of…
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Finding my voice inside scrapes and noisy grazes
The power of my voice If it is so Why then when I recount these tales to myself Lo even as they are written they are read, by me alone In another’s voice As for an audience thrown and projected My plaudits alone The product of rejection is a ravenous hunger Cravings as steel-circulated Cain…
Alchemisland 