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” 99% of smokers still die “

( mark e. smith )

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thy orthopaedic shoes
see you in loopholes

spin another sixpence
if the morning’s lost her hymn

six bullfinches
plus a wooden wood pigeon

october’s maypole
aspic wobbles

gay between the gorse
on the heathland’s scatters

if november eggs us on
so the curate is a swan

or a rabid badger
dancing like a twat

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( author notes )

that’s a dummy / plastic horse
in that winch

they were hanging
from an outstretched fire engine
at a country show

so no actual horses were harmed
in the making of this poem

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