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a squirrel on the scribble’s scrub
a kipper in your smoking kiss
the bubble wrap is bursting back
it’s bobble hats & bastard that
the western wind’s a sod

the morning was a yawning monk
& skeletal’s the turning key
the cuckoo’s cloud is falling down
as jacobite’s the battered night
& haddock be thy cod

the carlists carp a ducking pond
the mutant tudors hula-hoop
the robin is a crested tit
a distant dwarfish starling shines
& time’s a fishing rod

a shiver under silver birch
a leafless cloak of english oak
a sort of snoring garden gnome
the sunken sun is trudging home
the pace is but a plod

a once upon a twisted twice
the wrinkles on your crinkled arse
the drool between each dribble’s feed
the spittle’s spool’s a bucking mule
november is a nod

beyond the swan’s a wanker’s song
if mistily is missing we
a badger pissing up a tree
& so the fucking poets crow
the road ahead is odd

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