Tag: hopelessness

• Rotting away in a private space 

  Use went from sparing to daily  Used get it mailed in  Rip open the pack and rail it the second it came in. Coke and horse, my arm invaded  The syringe impaling  Like the razorhoned beaks of the venom-leaking birds of Stymphalia Heart slowly failing, in the palliative cupboard below the clothes railing. It wasn’t something…

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  16th Feb 2026

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• A hopeless March

  Misery again Sinking, like I went walking through the Lincolnshire Fen A sheer fence is weak defence against enemy offensives Constantly on the defensive Waiting for something to let slip I tighten the slip into a noose Buds to nip, the final snooze My head heavy as a mounted moose Continuing tantamount to self abuse…

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  2nd Mar 2025

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• Light and hopelessness

  Every breath wrestles phlegm before exiting Having sword not will therewith to swing Falling to lesser enemies, head full of magic beans Dreaming beanstalks and Jack-stalking giants Giants who smell Englishmen welcome in the IRA With mad dogs and Anglo-Saxons in the sun’s final hours Rays unafraid despite day’s shortening, brighter therefore in spite Pale…

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  17th Jul 2024

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