Tag: poem
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Police Search
If you see anything, shout halloa We dragged a Toyota Corolla from the creek Dredged it but no body We’ll spend the night combing The area like shell collectors A lot to mull over, pulling out old case files Dust on the boxes, recalling old names, Giles Rasdie a local had been always grasping at…
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GardaCheckpoint
Mad as the staff at the hattery, me Plug won’t get back to me I’m doing laps, building miles Seeing these streets I spy a cop car and lower my hatpeak Down the loudspeaker, peak danger so hair’s pricking Don’t speak down the receiver, he’s peeping, is this prick listening My poker face is fabulous,…
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Female now the world has ended
Sky leaks like a stabbed IV Saw the very last English rose turn to dust Someone tell Pete Doherty to write a song for me We never look back into the sun Since giant rocks smashed the sky It has shone brighter a hundredfold It bakes the young to look old, drys the eye We…
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Congo Snake Picture
Been reading about it since a sprog, Strontium Dog days when I was eight Lying awake nights wondering is the Congo Snake picture real Remembering hearing about that on Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World A colonel from Belgium like an hero poked his camera out of the helicopter Managed to cop a photograph of something…
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Nights now the world is over
I’ll give to the bag for life It lasted longer than ninety percent of the people I met in my life Well worth it for the price Clouds like a 99 in a sunless sky, entry of a shadowed century Its sentry a wounded moon, sent here to keep us stationary These are nights now…
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