Tag: poetry
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First Time Here
First time here Meeting her nearest and dearest en masse For the tenth time preening Perfecting my appearance in the car mirrors I have upon request removed my earrings I abandoned at her behest the cerise shirt and chequered slacks I planned to wear She rifled my closets drug squad style, threw my clothes everywhere…
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The Gardener
Mr Foley ate lunch on our lawn He still had his gloves on When he finished up his luncheon His pick quick work of the air between him and the ground’s hair, like a policeman’s baton Clattering an insurgent’s head, station said it never happened. Naturally as a gardener he had a love for all…
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H O L L Y W O O D E N I D O L
Celluloid satanism spurs a return to biblical literalism A new age of Creationism, it is the days of Noah and a schism Is coming, I have heard words hinting it, the trees hiss it Black mirrors breeding autisms, big meg Judges using lawgivers On civilians, the prisons are full In Winter we shiver while our…
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Worse Horrors
Sights I’ve seen make heroes incontinent When jungleshift occurs, will you still be so confident? When the very trees you marked with X’s are gone, sent By vengeful nature to weave and lead your missteps Will you call yourself the apex when you see the henges Raised up here, where ditches to stygian ends blend…
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Predictions
So much gore Displacement Skyscraper tips buried like basements Beneath glowing sediments On thin sand wedges the crowded dregs mark what’s left This place meant so much to me Someone reddens his cheek, be meek to speak Suchlike, there is no more room for sentiment Rendering of all unsettled scores A beginningless ending Such has…
Alchemisland 