Tag: poetry
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Thirst impressions
Entranced by the chances Raised with chancers Got smacks back instead of answers Waxy ganj mixed up with a fag Get gassed before flying my banners Let fly arrows, abandon manners I live hand to mouth, abandoned manors Cables like jungle vines Curtains tattered Grow makes it jungle like Riches like a diamond mine Lots…
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Something rotten in the Emerald Nation
Can’t lock in without my pills Can’t write when I take them So I suffer the ills Slings, arrows, painmaking castables Fortunes, fates, wheels, punishers, oubliettes in castles Reckoners, saviours, illusion painters, and fablists Surges of urgent hate Painstaking lengths to mention the race Neither unguent nor salve pain sating Something rotten in the Emerald…
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Gifted just means no effort
So many gifts, my parents could have named me Santa Dipped I drip ink into the sink like I just got in the door from a Bic-drawn world Everything seems wicked, all the rides are free if you have a ticket Everybody I know possesses laminate season passes and codes for golden keys I’m down…
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Bonelike music for saws: volume 133
Song of surgeons, verses twenty three through thirty eight Parting the turgid flesh, urging apart the tissues, has crazed me Metal screech autistic android choir all day, everyday Wheezing saws, applause as wasting diseases destroyed Greenan Maze All manner of invisible invaders Empty seat at table, with wineglass and packed plate Trying to subtract the…
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ily
Fill legal pads, empty pens Love slags, wags, eat pills like M&Ms Smack heads helped me big the bank Held back so I wised the bap Red stars, reality flap, wished at that Instant that But quick as flash it all goes flat Like shook up coke three days on car dash.
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