Tag: creative writing
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Cutting An Avenue
Love’s impossible gauntlet The Duke is sick from gimlets In bed he slumps a gauntling Around him a nightgaunt’s fret Another will not allow such play as he let The man he drank to run weighed down like a guitar fret He stayed in one room of his house as if the rest was haunted…
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Escape
Escape escape, any slack arm slit neck to nape The eyes regarding him ape him, his coat a butcher’s apron held with tape Escape escape or they’ll geld your pair! Escape escape vanity unfair! Swift cut the melee’s coarse air Acrid smokes and bodiless howls Captain bloodied steers grim corsair A course out. Neither surrender…
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Her Flat
In her bottom floor flat a sandalwood candle burns The key is a worm in the lock the worm turns Incense venting, the vibe is stupor bathroom palette blue as rogue trooper Like a sly cooper she makes barrels in secret She’s an enigma her neck is a vexing question like an egret’s Sills precious…
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Fire In A Comic Book Shop
Bearing ursinity with dignity, the great bear Baloo “I wanna be like you oo oo ooh” Wrenches him from his jungle nook Rage like man’s red flower he lashes out with power, lands with sound of closing book Frenzied Japanese report that a giant bear and a giant mercreature are batting on the coast Ursa…
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Binds
Why when we both hope the best We are sporting many scars Due to dine in our best dress Across no man’s table passing barbs. With only feet between us Miles and worlds apart Strangers on a nighttime bus With entirely separate hearts. Why despite a love for you Do other beds entice Why our…
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