Tag: imagination
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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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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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Tell ’em Elm Street
Pump a shell out Your life fell out Rolling behind the motorcade Like tufts of dropped president Freshed his fade with a rifle Pinked Jackie’s face with violence She was shocked and sadenned But he had a poxy cock in his jocks And she was still mad at him His head then was open plan …
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Bounding after everafter bound
Trailing you like a dog-seen scent A shadow leant animation, enamoured by caster You alabaster in stillness, cheetah fleet or faster Your feet soundless, printing no tattoo, water Through the forest and I follow Chagrinning rutting harts Scattering unblinking hinds Chewing the cud of my bitter defeats Bleeding into my inkwell, ichor-riven odes.
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Choosy eater
In a word pickyeater Eat a random bird’s dirtbox But need my apples peeled Once smashed liqueurs drank the contents like a shot Once drank most of a bottle of Jäger from an ash tray But hesitate trying shrimp, because it has a face And shape I find repulsively unappealing Like a wriggling worm. Choosy…
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