Tag: rhyming
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Speedburn
Disturbing images of the coming takeover All the wild ephebes streaming leaf-wigged out of burning Thebes At easy leisure shoeless feet ag siúl on streets where beefy rats excrete chips and cheese Naked, unbothered by the evening’s piercing breeze.
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Stopper Popped
Fuck Guinness, pour me a Smithwick’s Full send, sinking them until I’m paralytic Caulking memory with chalice mythic Recalling my enemies, all of them British My armour brittle, burnished, from the chalcolithic For what I’m about to present, you should be sitting A cave or the dirty Liffey as backdrop seems fitting.
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Splurge
Since last posting in April 2025 I’ve captured thousands of poems, varying, as do we all, in length, quality and tone. If physical tokens represented each poem, I wager that upon my death it would take a determined grieving family ten or more full car trips to the local charity shop before the lot was…
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Won’t stand you up and Delivery
Blasting tunes, driving miles Honour due, my platoon on trial for war crimes They’re trying to take my captain’s stripes Hidden snakes and drone strikes Hits I take, not Lucky Strikes I’m uptown, but no funk like Lasting a while, they do tend to cycle But it’s starting to feel like a spiral I don’t…
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B READY BREAD BRENNANS
Body fresh as a Brennan’s loaf Burnt off my prints ages ago And I wore a pair of driving gloves I’ve killed them in droves Shoved them into holes Some full fleshed, others ash But mostly bones Only I know where they’re stowed Ask me nicely I’ll let you know Take a left off any…
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