Tag: poet
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NOTIDLE
Try not using your mouth, dental procedure Hold your tongue, whisht don’t be an eejit Careful what you wish for, see Words seeds sprout to cedars Leak you sprung might end up litres, puddle to a seething sea Coward not a leader; for all to see, like leaked emails.
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Release party
I’m just out the county jail, there since ‘86 Drink was taken, eyes were vacant although ag féachaint Arrested naked under Halley’s Comet Seeing faeries dancing, Charles Bonnet syndrome Slathered in vomit, slammed down onto bonnet by officers Driven back to the station, cuffed and impatient in cups clubbed Drubbed with truncheons and towelled phonebooks…
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Lost and found
Once was lost, now am found I cut the branch, golden bough Find your Special Branch, the gun go blauwe I’m Chulainn’s hound cooling down after a spate of crimes I’m laying low in my home estate after an eight star chase. Back at the ranch, second tranche Second time in France, sign the contract…
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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…
Alchemisland 