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• Living Myths Living Big

  Triumphal arches Profit margins, archers, arches  Forces marching, fortresses in dark fastnesses gothically styled Vast courtyards flooded with ash after witch trials Mustering, men from the marches Mires and mashes enwaded, botched invasions Marvel upon my oft-visited visage, cross Ctesiphon’s Cast me in marble, capture me artist, Chthonic adonis Memorial to me, the most cryptic dripped…

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  20th Jul 2024

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• ReturningSurf

  Surf’s amazing but I’m here for Colonel Kurtz Surf eternal returning severed feet Witches collecting inexplicable chicken feet on a Cornwall beach Fossil record emblazoned in the ancient striation Like a giant had scraped it I’m naked. How long you been into black magic? Since Pan rode the Attic plain, as urn emblazons, dismaying Keats…

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• Club Milk/Milk me in the club

  Back in the day, thick black leather jacket All black outfit smoking drinking cursing, Father Jack Hackett Every girl I shift ratchet at the start Blessing them with my art Forward march of the combat sausage Assault train, no hostages, no trade. Holding my position Nah, I’m holding Hitler by his lederhosen straps Bruising his…

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  19th Jul 2024

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• Confrontation you should avoid 

  Out in the lane pissing  Some pox bottle diss me  Out my glaive, send him grave  Or blacken eye with my shilleagh Sin é. Sin, eh? Tell me where and when  Drop a cenobite’s head in my whatsapp Tell me you’re not scared, that’s a fat cap In your flatcap, with your whiskey flask  In…

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  18th Jul 2024

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• Mulligan the Merman

  Hopelessly addicted to the liminal Gripping waves I cannot swim against Sinjen Gogarty merman leap from yon martello parapet unto the deep Forty feet to be aesthete about it Cease mockery, medical Dick and Davey, and save me Hoiking me, releasing from Neptune’s keeping Back to strand and dry land, reinflating me upon sand.

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  17th Jul 2024

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