Tag: poetry
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The Death Spice
What happens when the divine device fit to confine to safety the mice of this unmeek world breaks down When life jackets cause drowning Some bear spines, poison-slick spikes Spicy food made so to spite predators Protective shields in lieu of venom Humans develop a taste for spice, what then? Their gift comes a curse…
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Successful Smell of Sweet
Many ways to skin a wombat Wrong ways to dole out wonga Hungering combat drunk Achilles casting drachmas out his tentflap What does not drain makes balance stronger, cash enhancements Prospective plug says strain’s stronger but talking’s long My books must be just so, Dawn comes up like thunder who wrote? He talks talk cock walk,…
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The Count
One eye creased my device’s sight like Time Crisis, light him up like beacons Cap peak placed low, hood up Cleaning a piece keenly mirrorsheen, waiters wiping lipstick from glasslips in speakeasies If yon gleaming glass slipper fit easily on any old flipper Every bitter cripple, crystal-coveting grifter and archvillain would hold meaningful title Cash…
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Puck Fair Puck Head Off
Number one, King Pecker Dunne If Spotify had him, England’d be didded gone inside an hour Power of sixty minutes each pushing around the circumference of Cronos’ slavery orange All is aflower Hours since sense last spoken, sentences rewinding like snagged reels Reaching pure sentiment, telling everyone how much they mean Talking about reinstating royal…
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What I learnt from Nessus
Player of games, ancient of days Work in poker, can’t even play Maintain ways of surviving, even thriving Dividing and conquering, wearing disguises Divine walking mortal, sharing horizons with nobody. No lies exist Everything iteration of mind, infinite variation Tongues desiring to know words from faraway lands No scarcity of misunderstanding at home No shortage…
Alchemisland 