Tag: fiction
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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…
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Clubbing
Head spinning like a car ‘round bends I can’t feel like fifteen Nurofen On the door a mean old sort Take a skinny ass for sport My head goes back like a xenomorph Catapult neck then he hits the floor. I’ve had five E’s I’m trying to blink it out Got ID, pal? He tugs…
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Edge is a matter of perspective
Homemade world’s most dangerous roads episodes on my iphone Persecuted for my perfect elocution My eloquence brokers sudden assemblies They send for me when things need semblance made of My knack for elucidation of long darkdimmed mysteries marks me My squaxx is dek thargo, my ship is the Argo and every plank is new What…
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Healing Powers
A seventh son so his hand heals, he feels the wound a suture sealed Draws a wince, his princely manner becalms, he prescribes drams of homemix Gnomic diagnoses, remedies from his old index of herb lore, forgotten ologies and indeed forgotten maladies Powders to harden sleeping priapics, pricks with narcolepsy He is the necromancer over…
Alchemisland 