Tag: creative writing
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Periphery Blue
Border blue Quiet surface I peer right through Fathoms deep, fathomless depths Bathing weights for sounding What you feel you swaddle like a foundling What I feel you smother like a changeling The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak. I see storms in you, shooing away storks.…
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Dead Elephants
Dead elephant flesh undrawn creaseless under ice Buried beneath Iveagh gardens Given fatal acid doses by jolly dopers, into-situation-ropers, haunting campuses with flyers Discordian opus printed at Jim Garrison’s HQ; when the president’s head blew that guy flew a few feet off the ground making his view askew He had seeds and gardened them, he…
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Comparing Fish
You feed five thousand with your tuna, praise Fortuna Mercury levels higher than in a Chinese tomb Silverine sliver like a river of melted spoons I chew through Attenborough’s camera crew when they come in view of my reef On sight beef, have a sea cow, man, bared teeth my action plan is active grief…
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Act On It
Ex-wing like an altered angel No such thing as EX ANYTHING Once and future king of the swingers all, disgruntled VIPs Reached a stop, shared some slop, now two’ve got HIV Thoughts are fine we relax with em Any action man’ll get axe ridden. I bang the gavel and break the law Your nose unravels…
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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…
Alchemisland 