Tag: routine

• When the boat comes in

  Wispy clouds Stetsoned and made alleged Sol’s weathermaking head. The Waker’s air raid alarm was slapped quiet like a mid-century stepson. Many hair-raising trials had he endured, emerging uncured of weakness But to strife inured, shorn of shyness and driven to speak up, to seek; Dad always said life’s bread’s one foot afore th’next, unto…

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  21st Apr 2026

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• SYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEM

  Get the lead out, lad Get out there and be fed fast; dazzle ’em, show these young turks The meaning of graft, define hard work Leaders or followers, I’d rather be led Primarily, I’d rather be submerged in molten lead until dead – deserved I can’t be a dole drawing twerp And I don’t have…

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  9th Feb 2025

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• What I need

  Barely time to dress, leave looking on fleek Scribing, writing treatises on daylight’s nature I can’t sleep without feeding on my tincture I take it in my teeth cave like the mama teat And suck until I’m succoured Looking at acres from every angle Looking at feet, Tarantino onlyfans I have a holding and big…

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  18th Aug 2024

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• Escaping drudgery

  You must understand my need to escape It is like I have been raped everyday for a decade This job has utterly debased me No case can be made for it Is it me or it which cannot be saved Dismayed to find it me. I am at Ballard’s exhibition of atrocities, numb to the…

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  21st Jul 2024

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• Repititions

  I repeat myself, often  I repeat  I repeat myself, often You reader best know my tendency Will you lend me ten You say yes too easy Stretch to forgive me then  Call it twenty, less is hardly plenty I’d keep you in me head and orisons at all times I’d do penance for your sins…

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  19th Jul 2024

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