Tag: poetry
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Rolling Crown
Sons dethrone fathers Slathering over thrones Would not trust, throw further Testing on unregal heads the crown’s width.
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Nimrod Takes Advice in a Thicket
Sarcastic mass delivered in a thicket, like an unexpected infant A wicked defrocked priest defiles hosts Summoning evil ghosts who talk of coming flood Of drummonds struck as signals in Heaven, heard throughout the Levant Nimrod speaks, “I will smite God, drag him down to Earth and have him live among my starving bitches Carving…
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Smashed at Actium
Gold much in Egypt Gods older than the foam which drank Atlantis Arch fantasist whose phantom hand called up every flower He toward whom all followers tend eventually Ear lender whose housing lobes empathic eternal paternal tenderness At disposal every power, every rotad hour known to he Oldest When ceaseless cleansing rains started, the heart…
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Stormbound Any Port’ll Suffice
Navvies with pole rot giving knee tremblers to cotton-rogued dollies dockside Hempen hawser holds rocking boat Houario, who by morning hears Iberian arias and by evening thumbs claddagh rings in Irish bars Humping harder chasing little bardo Whore spends poundful hours pounded by Horatio, heave-hoe a drop of Nelson’s blood and he’s ready to go…