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Rising ice age
More mistresses than the busy river has fishers More bitches than the ice caps have fissures And inuits getting fingered in igloos, har-poon Made friends with a walrus, use his tusks to open tins Land of frost, black toes the cost, smell of rot Neverhot sun blinding, everwinter ragnarok reminding So cold even my mind…
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Maligning annals
You call me unready, I say ill-advised My council are the one’s unwise Yet history untiring cites my ripeness And inaptitude for the primacy Those maligning annals On illuminate vellum Whose margins sport animals.
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And out come the sharks
Planks come loose from the trireme’s flank Like a flooded arena on the Emperor’s birth night Flaming men jump over the side and into the sea Bodies which sank the same regardless of rank Are set upon by shank-jawed blood magnets Magnates of the brine planet, baleful magistrates Whose every gavel check is a pronouncement…
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Shedding my shell
I am crying now but I choke back tears, there is nothing so queer As shedding salt for what was through my own inaction not got What is for you perhaps never passes you by But I have watched so many things going by, and in such hurry That they became blurry in my sight,…
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Passing by my life
You know I’m not a hellsent protestant Here I am trying to talk to God again Back garden dolled up to look like Eden Even Eve agrees it’s a tragedy that these Sad days befall a gallant son of Adam My neighbours think I’m a madman, let them at it They hear automatic drills and…
Alchemisland 