Tag: magick
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All gods any gods at all
Praying to Saint Joseph for a house Can’t wait until I’m old Something has gotta go Set-hippopotamus harpooned by the new pharaoh Battling for love of black cat Bast Handsome cow-eared Hathor music-eager Impassioned beyond, it’s majnun Decorating walls with wadjet symbols wallahi One-eyed Magi, enemies call me cyclops, those let survive feed my rep…
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Terrifying astral alignments
Finally every star in alignment Earning a living from writing is primary I must do myself this kindness I am close to blindness with misery I see before me a world blanched and piteous With pity for me, I see only smog scree and bleached Edens I am half-eaten, moths flee when the jacket is…
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Oldun
Tropes apotropaic popes inappropriate robes for such a solemn ceremony Cerecloth swaddled, buried with loving economy, heard no homilies When the family interned my body, dignity without a modicum Shoot a cop gladly I’m Clarence Bodicker, didn’t expect he’d come back a robot Know the plot ahead of time, rehearsed all my lines a hundred…
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Visiting a dolmen
Day is muggy, has us both sulky Pasty Irishers not made for sun Kissing your poisoned lips at the megalith Enormous light-eclipsing capstone Sits strangely angled, how was it lifted into place in ancient day I imagine cow-tramped trails, movable log ramps along which longstones travelled Burnt offerings and the bones of chieftains interned within…
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Target practice
Squeeze until it’s empty Don’t worry, it’s only toothpaste Spree of spending ends Time of tending commence I am standing against everyone Everyone rises to spite me in the end I am the spike, I am the skewered I am the pyke, I am the lure I am puerile, lurid and incurable I am a…
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