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un pantalon
velours côtelé
as they’re known in france
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un pantalon
velours côtelé
as they’re known in france
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february – then february
fifty p in change, please
late winter sunshine
a glimmer on your shoe
– a crocus or two
february – yes, february
four candles for candlemas
not fork ‘andles
that’s the two ronnies
xanadu ron-ron
february – oh, february
a valentines note
from the munter of my dreams
stroke terrible nightmares
but bugger all from you
february – so february
feathery yet woollen
sweaters sweat atop
of stringy thermal vests – yes
a heather hair shirt
february – cripes, february
a plump jenny wren
is pecking on my fat balls
– all the birds love ’em
( stop making up your own jokes )
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penned upon a wednesday
in your milkman’s mausoleum
written with squiddy ink
but no roadkill blood
possibly alt-clerihue
or confused haiku
garbled like a rewilded
gardener’s tongue
padded in places
mainly a-4 lined
nothing of note, nope
only notation
just the shapes of apes
yet may may contain
nuts & yet september
is the best month for it
before the hedgerows do
one like this poem
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elvis lives on the
moon with the loch ness monster
in a maisonette
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back before your ghost is born
bleating like a pygmy goat
breathe another biscuit tin
kiss a swan – & dawdle on
bite another bulletin
let the morning coffee sneeze
bring a pen of burning gold
older than the bastard hills
blear another clearing here
sliding like a trombone nose
billow, if the pillow speaks
cast a net of castanets
unarrange the normalcy
every daze – the beans & we
bless id us & sun above
when forever’s floating forth
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a phantom foreword
written by a ghost ( gasp )
a glossary in codex
plus explanatory notes
re last evening
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troofer online
preaching in full caps
THE EARTH IS A PANCAKE
INSIDE A GIANT PAN
have a word with woodland
but instead you type
EVERY WEATHER GIRL
IS A MAY SONIC SHILL
are you joking when
you write with aplomb?
TARTARIA
WAS MILTON KEYNES
BEFORE THE MUD FLOODS
HAVING A DUMP
IS A SAY TANNIC RITUAL
BELGIAN SPACE LASERS
SCULPTED THE SPHINX
IN NINETEEN NINETY SEVEN
( ? )
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stranger than before
strontium & cobwebs
begin without a further
ado or agadoo
unstraighten your sigh
anorak – not jacket
sitting room only
the oddballs will keep rolling
i hope you’re waterproof
& brought more silver bullets
cloudy lemonade
the egg whisk of destiny
& seven pounds in change
as infrequent frequencies
these freak occurrences
will become a thingy
sing, if it helps
scatter cushions fell then
weirder than the ears
of the balladeer’s missus
mistily, her hips
her luminescent lips
tomorrow never nosedive
swans kick it off
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tin whistle then
the ghostly folk men
in bright white coats
scrawl this morrow
blue is the new black
unslept in sigh
why is beyond
once upon mute swans
middle eight ten
cold winter day
grey like lady jane
old shuck’s breakfast
beans in a can
the turin shroud wink?
clouds below groan
dick turpin’s neck
turns like warwick’s earl
facing the gaze
rearrange strange
faith in her water
warmer than flames
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p encil shavings, plum stones
e ar muffs, eye patches
i roning boards, ice cream cones
c otton wool buds, conkers
e gg shells, elastic bands
s and paper, seventeen pence
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