Tag: poetry
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GardaCheckpoint
Mad as the staff at the hattery, me Plug won’t get back to me I’m doing laps, building miles Seeing these streets I spy a cop car and lower my hatpeak Down the loudspeaker, peak danger so hair’s pricking Don’t speak down the receiver, he’s peeping, is this prick listening My poker face is fabulous,…
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Turner
Thank God for beauty, Turner exhibition in the Tate Take it in some evening, be amazed Turn in where you normally wouldn’t, as if fate Compelled diverted course Found yourself before grace Itself Ships and men on the sea, as if we were meant to dwell there Navvies hauling ropes in a swell, unwell yellow…
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Metromania
I’ve evidently contracted fatal metromania Up and down, retreading ground Metroidvania Whip to hand like Richter Belmont, I’m a beamer-driving mountebank Mount the pave outside the bank, pin pad triad to fund my tranqs Longshanks how I enact prima nocta, knocking boots with your knot just tied Her balloon knot widened, shined her rusty sheriff’s…
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Signs of Times
Cruel words flying Fathers to sons lying Birds flighting Bards flyting Photocopier light lightning The roofs of the mighty Scrapers of nimbus underbelly Shapes, shoulders, of Olympus Great boulder pushing business Brand name Sisyphus Logo designed by an ipsissimus The machinery of epiphany is stolen from the streets The wolves of mystery spin puzzlement among…
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Lovely Bodies
Can’t take guesses on breast size but chest wide, dress barely hides Playing I spy on her spine Supine how she lies down Thirsty walking out of the sand dunes Mediating conflicts on the Alphane Moons He plays slap bass but I still slap the bassist Spy plane how I snap the bases Cryptid hunter…
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