Tag: poetry
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Baptismiling
Though her faith was plainly inert The shape of her, her manner, all madame and sir Suggested she was culturally church Kind and demure, worthy church-versed virtues But she had too some smuggled wildness I spied a caking of mud on her good shoes Often found myself doing what she told me to do She…
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Architecture
Plans for the destruction of planets If “they” fail to meet our demands. A manse for the construction of that Which damages thatches, snatches hats. I cannot believe that I would sanction that Rereading texts with head in hands. A white rainbow. The table’s dance A dictator’s childhood, Abel Gance Tar pupilled her sable glance…
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Broken lift
I refuse to say what Orwell would, and advises we should, convey in one sentence I am a Tennyson and length is my way However penniless are left those who this path take Rapidly dispatched are the savaging papers The niblike point of a me-trained rapier They read my work with a would-be rapist’s sharkish…
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Spell for Wealth
Only pure burnt spud dark expunges what I’ve done I am the armoured shark Who swims the pissy sea of the sun Belly full of license plates and surfer’s arms. Night lunges like an unsighted tiger I know what must be done But generous stars must be in place Before the knife can be plunged.
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Pale drink
Once upon a sultry molten vine-succouring choking summer Oil spitting out a sump. Bitten ground yielding to a pump Vampires seen abroad in broad day, wearing gimp stuff Pigflown skies, flyblown thighs the price of sleeping outside. You brandish my lust like a hind-bound brand above a bovine rump Brandy and crushed candy that Wonderland’s…
Alchemisland 