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• Maligning annals

  You call me unready, I say ill-advised My council are the one’s unwise Yet history untiring cites my ripeness And inaptitude for the primacy Those maligning annals On illuminate vellum Whose margins sport animals.

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• armoureddove

  Up above Armoured dove It’s all love But protected love Not enough Love itself is not enough. A single sprouting bud of next summer’s furze Emerging from unseen dirt, compelling me further Measuring triangle’s angles, distance between block and capstone Blake’s ancient of days no compass, protractor out Jakes asking around, no way no accomplice,…

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• lefthandedlefthere

  Suddenly bulging with anger Like Olive Oil put spinach in my hand Whoever spoke bad is lucky I don’t have a handgun Totebag, brandish, shoot think after, toetag him, vanish Hand in my notice at Olivanders to join a gang, black wizard band My left, most sinister, hand bent at angle can from distance strangle…

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• Bgrchsr

  Begging with open hand  I walk past you counting fifty bands  Opals and emeralds on my hands Score lower than Borderlands  You’re the porn parody of me.

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• NAVIGATOR 

  St Brendan  My boat went further Nature not nurture  My navigator’s a sage  Signs of him from ancient days  A name brinewrit on waves. St Kevin Above the lough  Living in a cavern Both irreverent  Age of terrible innocence Ignorance about the age of terrible lizards From her lips drip mispronounced dinosaur names, actually birds …

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