Tag: fiction
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Periphery Blue
Border blue Quiet surface I peer right through Fathoms deep, fathomless depths Bathing weights for sounding What you feel you swaddle like a foundling What I feel you smother like a changeling The kittens of my wants drowned in the blue burlap you made from Mary’s cloak. I see storms in you, shooing away storks.…
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Act On It
Ex-wing like an altered angel No such thing as EX ANYTHING Once and future king of the swingers all, disgruntled VIPs Reached a stop, shared some slop, now two’ve got HIV Thoughts are fine we relax with em Any action man’ll get axe ridden. I bang the gavel and break the law Your nose unravels…
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Apocalyse When
Apocalypse when Hard to say, Marty took a hearty Francis bored, cajoling exotic birds for cutting room rinds. No pyrotechnics when the president comes Manilla envelopes boxed book depository, lead spread lifeshedder the cranial suppository acquainted with a smack brain matter and tarmac That’s how we do when the president comes. Heard mooing the apocalypse…
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Trysting and Resolved
Crying pistols at dawn down the dual carriageway Finger heavy with a jewel conferred marriageways Your strange ways vex me and these are strange days Blocks of sun-stealing flats where the bowler used to be Bowling for every birthday, arcade games when we’re sixteen Two quid pops at House of the Dead, to reload point…
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Border
He has a combover and a lollipop lady stopping hand Do not come over anymore, to this our beautiful land He knows the Other to be Ham, himself to be Shem A sham missive, wedding dress with ruby hem where she knelt in her lover’s ichor Drank what his eye saw, frieze of yestermurder impressed…
Alchemisland 