Tag: shorts
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BOCCACIO SCENES
Hedgerow ceremony, held in edgeland behind lover-planted meadows Woodwose-attended Woodland wedding see the Huntsman’s wife wedded Princess who divorced wedded husband removing her hennin for a headman stole her heart ahorse.
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War’s Gnawing Worms Chewing Worldroots
Cavalry saddled, dappled flanks foam lathered Rattling at their sallying, fracturing gatling action Cleopatra’s fleet abandons field at Actium, ending the team. Teeming with corpses, sunrise orpiment solifies creamy pinttop waves bloodfoamed Octavian, having smashed Marc Antony’s maritime armies, consolidates Pheasant-fletched arrows along a dead soldier’s ridge like fangs in a fine-toothed comb.
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PAPAL EMISSARY
Church of many pedestals hosts many predatory pederasts Rapey papists flock like ants to heathen lands Pounce at any chance to have them renounce names of revered now-deified ancestors They are the Romans to whom all roads lead, colossus larger than ere stood at Rhodes, and theirs is the power of deicide Inside the dome of…
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Sen ten ces
Words consistent across time, insistent in their inconsistency Consisting of ellipses dips quips princely nibs produce it constantly Vast mystery of planetary history
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Finding Delights Multitudinous
Speak to me of discovery Pure serene of daylight dreams Meaning charging, living what will be memory Dreamthick hippocrene
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Blood Simple
Now I like a movie with thrills I sorta like Coen Brothers sometimes Watched Blood Simple and it was shite I can see how their style developed with time But it was there from the first, a certain shine A direct line to the creative divine, if you will Boring despite a short runtime Adoring…
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Saki Tries Relaxing
Saki at fifty in Khaki, portly and saggy Stands by sandbags, Tommy lights a fag “Put that bloody cigarette out!” The words barely leave this mouth Before fatal fireworks appear ahead Spears of lancing light improve a sniper’s sight Sniped last sunrise goodnight demise.
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Citadel of the Autarch
Up in the northern reaches Breaches in the mountains Through which Ascian armies file Alien crafts patrol the skies, without disguise.
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SONYLEAK
Alec Baldwin how I shoot and deny James Bond how she loved me the Spy Christopher Robin how I’m holding bare arms, bearing arms to do harm AA only when it’s Azor Ahai, always high Milne into him, send him spilling over the railing into Millpond Degradingly shallow, man into mallard Technical nightmares like JG…
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CryptCrept
Dealing heavy damage around the docklands, ichor-tinged drizzle rivers running Blood running down my hands Now I am kin to Nosferatu My only light is the ignis fatuus Tallowing my charnel tomb A vampire with all the time, and a hunger needing ever more A sourceless gnawing, a longing for human sauce.