Tag: imagination

• Up early Saturday morning

  It’s a Saturday, thank fuck I’m alive Woke up at five, up before the lark Dark still, beneath a sill Stillness amidst rilles sinuous What’s more than diurnal I use the earth as my urinal So I the early bird can see worms turning. I’m the ancient of days, patient in the Aldi queue Bread’s…

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  20th Jul 2024

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• Repititions

  I repeat myself, often  I repeat  I repeat myself, often You reader best know my tendency Will you lend me ten You say yes too easy Stretch to forgive me then  Call it twenty, less is hardly plenty I’d keep you in me head and orisons at all times I’d do penance for your sins…

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  19th Jul 2024

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• Club Milk/Milk me in the club

  Back in the day, thick black leather jacket All black outfit smoking drinking cursing, Father Jack Hackett Every girl I shift ratchet at the start Blessing them with my art Forward march of the combat sausage Assault train, no hostages, no trade. Holding my position Nah, I’m holding Hitler by his lederhosen straps Bruising his…

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  19th Jul 2024

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• Crack a window

  Utterly smitten, bitten and ridden with your disease, uneasy in bed Unclip the casement hasty Get to grips what all I see Grey tenements ten storeys, ineminent Nighttime seeing no linnets, evening liminal hymnal to vile evil  Cast like a spell my glance, eyes a lancet lancing swollen horizon Bewared every ide, never be ID’d,…

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  18th Jul 2024

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• Rebel spells 

  Jars and vials containing soil from rebel graves Each labelled and dated  Collins ninety eight  Two thousand four Roger Casement Known primarily for attempting to place  Rifles into RA hands, caught in the bay As his submarine upcame Laden with guns, bombs  Tools of pain, war’s trade Also instrumental in exposing horrors in the Belgian…

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  18th Jul 2024

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