Tag: creative writing
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WHEREDYOUGROWUP
We had a weird childhood looking back We played Crash Bandicoot 2 During IRA beat each other blue and black Played hide and seek, squares, manhunt, dares We leapt like Tarzans Lunched on Mars Bars Tipped back Lilt cans Merciless at red arse Chasing, tip the can, dodgeball Ball-based field games played them all Ran…
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Club Killer
The bald big lipped toll taker with a head like an Olmec demands our souls Behind him a shelf of enormous bones for when Cerberus is left alone I try to sweeten him up, straighten my tie and lean in; we’re friends of Orpheus, you know My tongue dulcifies my language, which usually sufficed His…
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Multiply
As much as one wants to be two Every subsequent number longs to be one again We try a million ways to born again We have done so since time’s dawn Gilgamesh and Enkidu raged, pawns We are not, they were drawn into Quarrels with which mortals have no truck The second I get twenty…
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Dial
Well, that’s your plan scuppered, he mutters He sees them malingering outside, snipes from the gutter Doubtless holding tucked cutters Knows the kind, make career Of destroying the area Knows how to deal with them Just like he did in Korea Call in the pros, Mavis Old man wielding a baseball bat instructs his wife…
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Grasp
My addictions seem impassable The source of them ungraspable I’ll be smoking grass Sure as shit stains are found beneath an asshole Sure as Shadowfax is in your Findus casserole Your Rolex knows my Casio’s gold tier I’ve gone clear, operating Thetan Procreating Satan on my discman.
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Shower Time
I’m the clown in the candyvan When you shave in the mirror I’m behind the shower curtain Shouting stand and deliver Your flesh a map of agonies Curtain wraps around my knees I am wearing your shower cap while I Slash you like the candyman You leave cherry streaks on the mirror’s cheeks .
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Darndale when it’s hot
Sun out, ag sásta Up at midday exhausted Flat so hot Near enough need a spatula To get up; you’d be roasted No bread for toast or milk for Frosties Dennis short fuse regarding Softies Summer’s here Finished coláiste Meet for bricfeasta Vodka and oráiste We’re messing, acting like páistí New style but off old…
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Parallax View Few Dubliners Relaxing
Fourscore, twenty past four A haze of dancing spores Where the sun shines glorious Grounds on which I left spurious The office is too tedious For a day this radiant Shirts and tshirt days here rare Few and far between, I was furious Wasting time for a traitor’s dime Money, that whore do not that…
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Starsteered to the Christbyre
Star directing Magi steeds Across streetless dunes Above streakless skies Where Djinn sets hide Their camels’ two-lidded eyes flaunt Sand immunity, but they are blind To the profound end of their jaunt Night cowers before that animate fire Time senses dawning a new empire Guides them toward a byre Where a King retires In hay,…
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Lessens
Always felt lessons lessened me I used to doodle during lessons except english and history Now I dawdle along an endless present, accept lessons from history Those who came first Who wore furs and trapped Dragged the first furrows Built fish traps Buried flint at Mount Sandel Ten thousand years old I suppose no one…