Tag: life
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An encounter with ill manners
How quick it all changes The world turns, the worm turns A single word and the whole pail’s curdled Human kindness clags to quasi cheese You wheezing disease of a being You can be counted upon only to offend You give temper many pleasant, jury-agreeing reasons You rile me as none have done recently since…
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Grafter going to an afters near Grafton Street Trashed, slapping windows of taxis stuck in traffic Bag grafted onto my hand, big bag of cans and ecstasy tablets I’m coming down, like Moses with the tablets Magic against magic, magi made the staff split Dead wood made to writhe and hiss In the City a…
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Rotscraper
Appian Way What she is saying tracks, loathe though I am to say The grinning, gas-riddled Sybil’s proclamations Again proved fate, to my chagrin Straight tracks all the way in, not taking a train Haven’t trained but decided I’m not taking it anymore, starting today Painstakingly removing all my life’s negativity Removing limpets from a…
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Now it’s
Tapping cards, keep it coming touch wood I’m tapping bark Tapping a black biro on a desk shelling hard bars into a spiralbound jotter Saying goodbye with no regards, love in my heart despite the shotgun Nudging my spine’s bottom rungs As the priest droned on about sacral duty, of love A series of false…
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Strange magic abroad
First degree murder on the curb Third third degree conferred on the third When ferrous Mars observed the Earth So closely that of hues dearth was observed, save the red there imbued Even the Moon which whispers of a winter morning And haunts the weakling light of days like a cloudcolour warning Was missed Had…
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