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Oldun
Tropes apotropaic popes inappropriate robes for such a solemn ceremony Cerecloth swaddled, buried with loving economy, heard no homilies When the family interned my body, dignity without a modicum Shoot a cop gladly I’m Clarence Bodicker, didn’t expect he’d come back a robot Know the plot ahead of time, rehearsed all my lines a hundred…
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Visiting a dolmen
Day is muggy, has us both sulky Pasty Irishers not made for sun Kissing your poisoned lips at the megalith Enormous light-eclipsing capstone Sits strangely angled, how was it lifted into place in ancient day I imagine cow-tramped trails, movable log ramps along which longstones travelled Burnt offerings and the bones of chieftains interned within…
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Target practice
Squeeze until it’s empty Don’t worry, it’s only toothpaste Spree of spending ends Time of tending commence I am standing against everyone Everyone rises to spite me in the end I am the spike, I am the skewered I am the pyke, I am the lure I am puerile, lurid and incurable I am a…
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Codependent
Bring up green phlegm, triple six, one six and a fifteen up since then Second she’s up have her rolling a blem She can’t refuse me, fellow drug abuser Neither a lunatic nor a loser but nothing else soothes us In sooth I know not why I am so sad Men in black suits sitting…
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Mourning routine
Spent each day’s first hour trying to bring up phlegm Coughing a lot, hope it’s green and not red No coffin for me when I’m dead Drive me out to some sylvan selvedge Mention the names of my invisible mentors Do not expound on my derangement, my lacking mental faculties Year of mourning wearing black…
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