Tag: poetics
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Praypaint
Name written all over the burbs That furtive calligraphy of car park and curb My enervations so enrage them it reduces them to slur my good name House shows my earnings like I won a money tournament, burgher Burners, burnouts, pipeburners Top earnings, pipedowns, snipers, improved rifling With an improved life I could have done…
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Reliving
Glugging, trying to drown out the plugging and slugging Memories that feel exactly like the experience come flooding all of a sudden I’m done like a steaming plum pudding, take me out What do I press to tap? Bugzap myself with a whole gram, most can’t hold that; Atlas for example He got old, those…
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Strange magic abroad
First degree murder on the curb Third third degree conferred on the third When ferrous Mars observed the Earth So closely that of hues dearth was observed, save the red there imbued Even the Moon which whispers of a winter morning And haunts the weakling light of days like a cloudcolour warning Was missed Had…
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Don’t struggle
Galling day, I was taken In this abrasive place shedding finer shape, scraped to bare graven Here shaking frail, faint growing, amazed how utterly spent I feel With only 33 turns of the wheel hardening my feet Better to tease the weakness all must fail to flee Once-vivid recall of appallingly spent days Lost now…
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Easy turning pages with bleeding fingers
In the self-charcoal’d dark of feeling owed Counting out stolen oats, broken oaths The throats I would throttle to breaking if only they closer came In this close space, with clothes frayed Nails broken with ceaseless scraping, ruined chassis Unchained stasis, sin-stained As if this evil carapace would be escaped Taken away and burnt like…
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