Tag: art
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Short bursts
When I’m on the prowl don’t hedge your bets All my debtors wear tac vests to bed Never divested from them, that is until I get them and leave them dead Hit you easy like Harvey Lee targeting a conehead, one shot no scope Smoking a bone hoping to hone this hopelessness into a poem…
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Starsigns
Canis minor, selling Cain to minors Pocket money, cough up the fivers from pops and mummy Triple price if the collars popped and they look monied Dog days, getting my hands muddy Readying runways for a second phase. Orders to do it. Fogged shades disguise a pair of eyes redder than a Pharaoh’s gruaig. Sucked…
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Accent
When she spoke, it was with an implacable accent Neither French nor Irish A brute chimera festooned with the worst of both All rolled Rs and missing Hs. I’m reaching those ‘missed the boat’ sort of ages, And I wondered, in fact I hoped, that if you wouldn’t accompany me to dinner You would at…
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Seeing what should not be seen
I spy her naked, unchaste Furtive as only the bitten and chased are. A beautiful fairy lady Her hair shell-trailed is raven sable Long necked and strange Not unlike a craning bittern Always scowling like an ill tempered Master examining a confiscated diagram. In a lake bathing, silt-tailed Her wake this sylph a silver surf…
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The classics
Like some Tesla tether How well She conducts herself For one sent from Hell solely to succubise my life, And torment me away from myself; Her illusion dispelled, courtesy the thyrsus I wielded Purse of my vision filled like a mugger’s fist at her unshielded I saw well what the flexile well of the mirror…