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Once Heroes
Rats inhabit the basement passage below the tavern Like I just started playing a fantasy game I got a level one blade, lockpicks and a vitality admix Armour vests full of dents, chinks and missing links No magical properties on my rings yet Kept every bowl and bone in the stow hold Turns out I…
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Rebel Angels
Leader, leading lesioned legions into the fractured curtain wall girdling Eden The slain steel-eaten gurgle blood Virginson’s host broken, his tokens seized His leal lords swanwinged bidden kneel The greedy first are weeded out as weak Strong as the weakest link The brass ring breaks and takes the rest with it Claims are staked and…
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KSWAYK
That ket would put out a rhino I’m outside in the rain like a bin liner, Monday 6AM Smoking so much, put paid to my hitting high notes Nice and high though, like a sky-throated condo Ket, weed and blow, three piece combo with the soda Hit like a bomb, I’m bonded to my Motorola…
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Bicker
Splintering a hidden crypt’s driftwood door, ripping out hidden histories Indeed, it is a history shared which provokes bitterness A known joke taken as witness testimony It’s the history that stops you quitting in the middle Acquitting oneself, suddenly, of the need to bicker A shitslinging contest, cruelty besting honesty, going far beyond the line…
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Flow
Wet yet spring in step, hopeful yet of late Spring A lapping spring thought imaginary, hidden since history No mad king’s lap-spread map could bring you to its brink Only chance, happenstance, incidence or accidents provide access to the relaxing idyll where they stoop to drink and linger a little, a little thing The ring…