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Babies
In family way after rolling in grass with a classy soldier from Galway Needled in a haystack, crack packed with man wax Wiping hay off each other’s backs, tells her he’s recalled to action Cleopatra and Marc Antony before Actium, affection in anguish Branding each other with elegant irons, defiant despite fate’s impliancy Tossing fresh…
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Stymy those syllables
Don’t get hung up, might get strung up One more word you’ll never earn young’s antonym You’ll never mutter at the first wrinkle in the mirror Fucked with a nutter and got murdered When I talk, never have to ask if I stuttered When you talk, it’s speak up, you muttered Bleeding out in the…
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Kettle enstormed
In the kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil, practicing spinning back kicks Sun sporting plot armour affronting, lending a cardboard sky wonder Solaire’s eye’s delight and pride, burg’s burgher, I am Thor’s thunder Wielding an axe I vanquish my axis, need to switch up my praxis Actor in my room, in the mirror practicing…
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El Odeon
Of all the seas in all the towns in all the world, she walks into my ocean Only Nick I overnight ends in El Odeon Sponge choice, I want the yellow one, submerging in his element Painting yellowbrickroads with urine, burning Babylon for insurance I’m drinking cartons of Ensure belonging to my mate’s sick ma…
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Nights in the potter’s field
Come with storm like boredom Again visiting bottle’s bottom Sodom’s last surviving citizen, rest got singed I cavort with scornful forms in the halls of aborted life Hades how many graves In mirthless mournful surrounds, rat sounds More squeaking than ball courts. Take a lich road to the boneyard Smell of ammonia and charnel, harmful…