Tag: poetry
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Blood Simple
Now I like a movie with thrills I sorta like Coen Brothers sometimes Watched Blood Simple and it was shite I can see how their style developed with time But it was there from the first, a certain shine A direct line to the creative divine, if you will Boring despite a short runtime Adoring…
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Pearl Jam Guy
I see you Dad’s pearl jam shirt Facebook work listed as pint university For you it never gets better Than Yellow Leadbetter You take a red setter bus to the city center Eddie Vedder on your headphones His lyrics enter you like food, like bones Into an ogre’s gullet You never caught the header Born…
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Saki Tries Relaxing
Saki at fifty in Khaki, portly and saggy Stands by sandbags, Tommy lights a fag “Put that bloody cigarette out!” The words barely leave this mouth Before fatal fireworks appear ahead Spears of lancing light improve a sniper’s sight Sniped last sunrise goodnight demise.
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World on the March
From the vantage of a top window I watch khaki ants vanish Factions action bound make passage Leaving in jolly batches, in patchwork and motley Returning in patch and blood-blotted bandage Hand in hand the gas damaged living in the land of Nod Distant action A sense of traction, of freefall Inked names suffer no…
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Notification of Death 1915
She hears gravel level Level step of a step sergeant Loud chest his jangling medals of charge His thumb web black from repeated discharge within a yard of target He hands over a cream card, says Mrs Hargreaves my heart grieves When one leaks, indeed all England bleeds I know that he died on his…
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