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3Third3
With an exceptionally hot Spanish in D4 Intercepted packages with Plankton on the sea floor With Rapture, Oceangate scrap, Greek galleys and Manannan’s Lamp Trap shit to attention capture, no caps Long wrap sheet in service of these rhapsodies In threes like death, disrupted plans Chaotic mess falling upward to success
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Disarming candour
Me and my brother used to have lives Gave it up to rot inside smoking five skinners Hitting pipes, connect for super strength Like Voltron with rings together, he’s always live Always high so cannot drive Liffeyside meets in the City Centre We meet, feign interplay, quick embrace Exchange cash for a bag without touching…
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The Unplanned Sun
You can have ties that bind Or goodbyes all the time; Robert Graves’ sand-drawn line. In my mind Her licked thumb perfecting my patina Gina tying my tie before I went out with a Pope-due fuss Someone mutters to instant hush Candles on guttering-cusp widen like o’erfed childs Sound-roused, back to the line Having been…
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Many reports of spirit sightings since the city fell
A dead horse’s head, flak-flensed Wide-eye like a fish sight lens Wreathed in supernatural blueberry flames Leant against a gate, like a no-tautness workman on cigarette break A ghostcoloured girl singing a strained lullaby in a ruin-shaded lane She wheels forth and back in the customary rhythm of relaxation A one-wheeled pram razed to its…
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Hooded men seen walking the streets during air raids
All straights contorted Bombs stripped away the paint to the boards You’ll all recall ignoring calls to address the border hordes Effaced like writing on a wind-facing grave Most of the skin cladding her face Her Claddagh ring melted, its gold made a minor lake The white bones like the fate knowing tokens of a…
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