Tag: homer
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Postolympiad
Back at the athlete village, booze stocks getting pillaged Locks knocked off lockers with rocks Two time bronzers running around with outed cocks Fiends open-throated usually confined to strict diet Eating like Laestrygonians, going everywhere All the Olymypians loaded, decoded off two beers The tools are at play, swaying on medalled feet They chat easily…
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Dress nice today, please
You tell me show up trim for the family pictures I show up Clay Collard muffintopped Swilling drinks, all the trimmings Collar flapping open, all buttons open this instant; sesame Described me pregnant with a beard, crying Yeah that’s him, please understand he’s Irish He can only do harm, he’s harmless He’s an accidental pirate…
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Gun stuffed into your mouth, Tuesday evening
Lend ear, Roman Mental noise gentled Heavy mantle offlifted Bleeding earphones leak Dull sound of dumbed hummingbirds. Gimme tea no nettles Shotgun lemniscate Scattershot breath Feeling cold metal Shook like near-done kettle Making keepsakes of possessions Possessed by legions of Satan’s Chiefs. Browning Version Keats’ passion for Chapman’s Homer I have a go: his darkening…
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Druid Cities Four
It is summer elsewhere, perhaps in Rometown London Which I am far from Further flung even from where I redoubt; house within a house ‘Haps without drab isle they glad sun, in Sumer Tired of this world’s crab guile, I recline sighing Sights of mind undying, pliant as desire wills Brushed as if by fingertips…
Alchemisland 