Tag: murder

• The death of Antinous

  The retinues have filed out for the night With each subsequent wine, the whiny entitled Emperor chides His lover and mate for suggesting castration “So that further decay might be held at bay!” That higher registers he should maintain Until no brown remained in the Emperor’s mane, Gone the way of his eyes, the same…

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  8th May 2026

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• That’s him there

  The culprit swanning across his yard Hurriedly, as if pursued, studied and furtive and rapid His feet were light like the sun unseated walked these sordid streets And like a rat’s made only a light tapping, as if assuring a woken sleeper Nothing is happening I spied him who sent me white, that I so…

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  4th Jan 2026

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• B READY BREAD BRENNANS

  Body fresh as a Brennan’s loaf  Burnt off my prints ages ago  And I wore a pair of driving gloves  I’ve killed them in droves  Shoved them into holes  Some full fleshed, others ash  But mostly bones  Only I know where they’re stowed  Ask me nicely I’ll let you know  Take a left off any…

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  3rd Apr 2025

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• Kill you attend the funeral

  Burning one Blunt or the sun All someone’s son Spilled his rum Captain Morgans Oh Captain My Captain Clapped him, no clapping Humour’s mordant Humors imbalanced Mediaeval physicians in superposition around my bed Leeches, them some hungry bitches Served my blood as a dish then I dash, hitching up my britches Stitch in time saves…

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  1st Aug 2024

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• Shot dead at the end

  Scram when my gun blam Son of Son of Sam Your last moments caught on cam Scared shitless in the lift, Elisa Lam Lost in the apartment complex I’m on the escarpment like rooftop party, dressed for the army Convex part of scope hyperbole fixed on you, say hi eternity Turn a man to meat,…

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  23rd Jul 2024

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