Tag: love
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Love songs
Love requited but unsaid Love unneeded traitorously heeded Surplus to my requirements Your face haunts my surrounds Loudening every silence Love unrequired but much desired On love’s lawed oceans, I flawed pirate Wash my hands in the cup of you, Pilate. Love unsaid, never uttered Never to usher down aisles Never to be gushed over …
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Escaping drudgery
You must understand my need to escape It is like I have been raped everyday for a decade This job has utterly debased me No case can be made for it Is it me or it which cannot be saved Dismayed to find it me. I am at Ballard’s exhibition of atrocities, numb to the…
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Wolf among you
Wolf in the Nikes with a peasant-frightening psyche Bars make you jump, cars scaring pheasants off the curb My mind strewn, rune-carved pages Another planet’s Book of Matthew Gaining dishonour extolling extracanonical apocryphal gospels Rarest codices available, ancient psalters from life’s cradle Cracked like magma-strifed gryke-ridden ash plains Below hellflame spilling volcanoes Eat a pan…
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Decade
We met, this year, ten years ago My broken heart more ardent with recent censure Your Highness in Scorpio My high ass neurotic Virgo Both of us furtive Venus in Virgo Explains why we go slow, escargot We are moated Norman castles In which float dead horses tasselled That Aoife is a keeper Still waters…
Alchemisland 