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Filthdawn
Damaged sky everycolour Buttery and smudged Fudged utterly Hues so lovely Pastels so eye-floodingly wondrous Could only signal some end’s beginning Night frightening and bright Night, a lid, shattered Like a glass tortoise sent warward Revealing the home of the law In broad, raw technicolour Like a hawaiian shirt some fat cop wore Red flaring…
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Expected Spectacle
The future, crabs in a bucket Oil sludges, moving sluggish Through city stormdrains Shimmering puddles Pulsing Rome cloak purple and daffodil John Brunner Summer With Blade Runner weather Muckers going numb, going under Their suicidal thunder spin cycles the towers Themselves peopled by psychos You know them, a certain type Who might go there, who…
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Minuses
Chill night marking miles Mike’s just a chill guy Hands down the pockets of my ill strides Cold out so soles chilled of my slides Sliding along a meandering mirror High snow banks to either side Skaters eighting the ice-encased river Carving amazing shapes for avians Proceeding without delay Won’t you stay with us for…
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BIRDCROWNED
Hooded ravens like sable priests Branch pulpits, sylvan sermons Where the river swerves Ancient faces, opaque and shapely Like women from a faded mosaic Beauty untamed, pagan Stained, sporting abrasions
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And city and city and city
Mournful, needing more food to function We have not known fun We have known every inch of the sun How it falls like a truncheon When you’re trudging hungrily Scrounging together enough For a meagre luncheon That’s never enough Stuffy in layers of jumpers Keep them on because I haven’t showered in months Besides, my…
Alchemisland 