Tag: depression

• The mood is on me

  Nothing moves me This irremovable mood which occludes, Like a bright moon does the owl’s beloved gloom, All the world’s joy. The noise of guards rifling through  Rooms made of tinfoil and dead leaves Loud as toasterpops seem In a house full of people sleeping dreamily.

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  8th Jun 2026

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• The worst clown

  To quilt mourning feelings he drinks all morning and day, to scant reprieve. Until, ‘twixt lycan and labrador, dusk of day, he ill became. Old sick stains on his wipe away sleeve top Fret not, it’s invisible beneath his polkadot livery Feeling liver-y Greening pallor, sweat gleaming Swaying though still Steaming from the swill, believing…

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  20th Apr 2026

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• A hopeless March

  Misery again Sinking, like I went walking through Lincolnshire Fen A sheer fence weak defence against enemy offensives Constantly on the defensive Waiting for something to let slip I tighten the slip into a noose Buds to nip, the final snooze Head heavy as a mounted moose Continuing tantamount to self abuse I must self…

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  1st Mar 2026

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• A hopeless March

  Misery again Sinking, like I went walking through the Lincolnshire Fen A sheer fence is weak defence against enemy offensives Constantly on the defensive Waiting for something to let slip I tighten the slip into a noose Buds to nip, the final snooze My head heavy as a mounted moose Continuing tantamount to self abuse…

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  2nd Mar 2025

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• Glare from ignited libraries

  I have spent much time reading, entreating with the deceased for rare anecdote I despoil their codices whilst wearing their robes and golden things It is not always easy, the poorhouse is ever needy for feeding Nothing is ever as it seems, we are not forging paths but leadlings Things on leashes, never to be…

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  26th Aug 2024

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