Tag: writing
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Start With Or
Your every sentence commences with an ‘or’ commensurate with no I feel nothing like a finger blacked by snow Why ask? It’s a no, just go and later apologise Your problems a minimised and mine magnified under trial I once provoked in you fine feeling, blood tinged with wine of evening, now I rouse bile…
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Green Hell
Vietnaming names they blacked out of docs, alphabet black ops Men sweat so much they’re made of salt Heat trapped in by a verdant vault Riddled fronds mark where they repelled last night’s assault It’s so hot the gunmetal boils, hotter than I ever recall Lightless flame and flameless light, the blameless dead in the…
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Apocalyse When
Apocalypse when Hard to say, Marty took a hearty Francis bored, cajoling exotic birds for cutting room rinds. No pyrotechnics when the president comes Manilla envelopes boxed book depository, lead spread lifeshedder the cranial suppository acquainted with a smack brain matter and tarmac That’s how we do when the president comes. Heard mooing the apocalypse…
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Trysting and Resolved
Crying pistols at dawn down the dual carriageway Finger heavy with a jewel conferred marriageways Your strange ways vex me and these are strange days Blocks of sun-stealing flats where the bowler used to be Bowling for every birthday, arcade games when we’re sixteen Two quid pops at House of the Dead, to reload point…
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Watching The Sea At Yellow Strand Beach
Maps to roadways where Gards don’t go Keys to kingdoms where stars don’t glow Moon curved carved out sea slabs Sea breach foam beards along the strand like the wet dab of cold cloth fever reveres, the fearless tide reappears a million times rebuffed.
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