Tag: writing
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CRUSADE
Hephaestus of the lean-to, the villages hammydown armours seen to As if they were Pope’s robes purple as peacock’s tail fanned like a winning hand to mock the downy cygnets, parading that office He mends lockets, shoes oxen, builds strongboxes, tests locks, ensures a sword’ll knock through an enemy’s props and drop him He beats…
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Police Search
If you see anything, shout halloa We dragged a Toyota Corolla from the creek Dredged it but no body We’ll spend the night combing The area like shell collectors A lot to mull over, pulling out old case files Dust on the boxes, recalling old names, Giles Rasdie a local had been always grasping at…
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Theagenes of Thassos
Theagenes of Thassos how I take the face off For clicks I scuffle at the face off Backroom it’s all hand shakes like bake off, fake all so fuck off I’ve been training in the mountains, Dagestani regime I’m learning shadow kicks from cave Djinn, typa kicks’ll cave heads in Half the audience my brethren,…
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Nights now the world is over
I’ll give to the bag for life It lasted longer than ninety percent of the people I met in my life Well worth it for the price Clouds like a 99 in a sunless sky, entry of a shadowed century Its sentry a wounded moon, sent here to keep us stationary These are nights now…
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Going out for messages after the world ends
Anthrax-tinged winds winnowing through nuke-bared trees Cold as the windowless, hissing like geese the burning steels Kissing her feet while the burning steals The world around us, even the ground dust Is dangerous, another mushrooming nighttime sunrise Demise of some great nation Violet light like an auric field around the stricken power station I can…