Tag: expression
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Death Brief Visitor
We who survive you do so begrudgingly, we the unsmiling Like a triumph spining along the road Lumps in throats blown noses Family read words they wrote, tears spatter coats Words more beautiful than merits so doleful a day, their voices did not break But rang out in elation and sang to broken hearts Music…
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Pry Vice Eye See
No demarcation point between public and private, doorless toilet I call poetry Trousers banding my knees as I evacuate my guts From doorframe turtlesnap apertures squeeze shut.
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Bankburster
Commerce stilted while high street’s silted More burst banks than Dillinger’s explosives More bankside miracle than the hands of Moses More roses strapped to lamp posts More wool than trapped in lamb coats Across your eyes, that’s my disguise My five fingers venetian blind one eye I’ve always been a hider in closets A closet…
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Movie Night (Got Tings In)
At my thumb track, her spine traced Her back tightens, undulating lace From her jean waist bending forward Clash of Titans, Andromeda frightened by Krakens Cracking on with it, craic is 60 I’ve techniques like a crack shot for trick joints I knew when she linked me the think sexy is mutual, shortest distance between…
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Talbot Street Marian Apparition
No vestal virgin No better version Massing troops for land incursion Massive dupes for mass extortion My late abortions stop guys late forties Virgil’s next best vessel Always excessive What next step is Success is Successive progressions My woes are written Opposite of Wolfe Tone epitaph Robert Emmett epigraph Swing fast like Stefi Graf With…
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Cafe Days
The other day I watched a bargirl carrying a precarious pile of ashtrays When returning reverie struck, of my days working in cafes Happy rage equal expansive, rounded chin short of handsome Furtive as a stray yet bold as a peacock, easily led astray I was at that age.
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Here Now
City’s like chewed gum passed around Not one inch of hallowed ground Aged brown, grown out but never outgrown Stone to dent our presence here That we ever, ever we were so now we’re here forever You can’t change what has come before Time is like a charging horse, all froth and midair Place is…