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( back in ten ) ( s k e l f e g g s p l a n e t a r y s t u f f z z z z z z z )
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splash cash hand flash hump stitch silver stickle piggy switch ...
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( back in ten ) ( s k e l f e g g s p l a n e t a r y s t u f f z z z z z z z )
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splash cash hand flash hump stitch silver stickle piggy switch ...
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another autumn leaf song ( a b a b c b c b d b d b e b e b )
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we whistle so in sodden air as minstrels mince with harps on sleeves the apple's flown & swan's the pear the hay is stacked, the barn is sheaves we hum a beat - drum under grey it's dust & dung's the beetle's heaves as even creeps & steals the day as witches stitch the weasel's weaves & on as goslings skein the sky as garrick fly & lichen breathes a dog, a goat, a ghost & i - the wonky slates of woodland's eaves we see them green then see them glow before the snow falls thick as thieves a wave, a trudge & crunch bellow a swan, a song of autumn leaves ...
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nosy tree poem ( a p o e t r y o f p o e m s )
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is it for sniffing a woodland & home ? whiffs of a wood nymph a pixie or gnome ? bells in the springing the song of a lark ? toads on pagodas & lichen on bark ? lightning in august or autumn in spore ? cyclamen's sister then death on the floor ? breath of the breezing a slip of the cow ? thaws in the squinter a drip from the brow ? praps it's for sneezing the cousin of cough ? trees can be breezy but people? - fuck off ...
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i’d pike to peach the pearl to ping ( a p o e t r y )
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i'd bike to bilge the worm a gnome & burnish shit with love crow faculties & punny bees & snow shite turtle doves i'd spike to speech the whirl to wing in perspex armoury i'd like to colditz in my palms & seasick tuscany i'd hike to scree the swirl for bonce squall brassing band in band & hear them hedgerow through the squills for peas throughout the bland i'd pike to peach the pearl to ping in pervert larceny i'd like to fold it in my arse & keep it company ...
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my other poem is … ( a s c r i b b l e )
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the prince regent of greenland the lost keys of a skeleton a gibbon & an englishman an otter in an orangery a rose within the clover the antlers of an antelope the saddest song a swan can mime a whitsun eve on ganymede september in november the mustard in y' custard cream the dots that spot the tiger's stripes a spider sky - an alibi the bread that leavens lemons an odyssey stroke lottery a prat amongst the pigeons & a black hole in the coal shed ( ! ) ...
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bolts of blue ( h m m m m m m m )
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if i am herring red then you are bolts of blue the tac upon the wall a silent touch of flu with nick the prick above & deep the denim seas a crack of robin's egg a whiff of stilton's cheese or prussian lightning strike the grease of bottled fly the periwinkle moon or juniper jam sky a blaze of flame in spring as neptune blooms & rings the berry saddest song a bird or whale can sing & so, the yonder's swan no bye or toodleooh if i am herring red then you are bolts of blue ...
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syntax saddle wax ( a p o e t r y s )
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hopscotch otter socks tosser lottery prosody's a podded pea big gun bunion sun onions in a dome shining like a chromosome tut, tut cardigans lather as a larch cabbages are on the march pen then, morris men togas when in rome worm squirms in an earthen tome spew blew mutant moon magnets on y' back pave the wave - don't smoke the crack syntax saddle wax fodder froth & foams horses snorting hippodromes hi-fi libarary skittles in a line hare's the air & sylphidine bat flap babbleaxe gargle garden gnome pots in holes & scrolling home ...
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cabbage mathematical ( a l i s t )
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cabbage mathematical cataracts & anoraks snippet up & scribble this squawking to y' elf again pebbles in a pencil case buttons of the onion sun portals in a portaloo petals on a rose's thorn scissor kicks & waterloo poetry with broken toes otters in an orangery smatterings of scatterings mother moon & sister mist focus in the crocuses faux-fluorescent funerals this is not a shopping list ...
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flight, the good fight ( i n k t h i s t h e n )
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otters of austria caskets of ossier seven & leavening scatters of maps bulls of bulgaria doggerland's hairier frogs win the lottery gaps in the cracks attics of attica badgers & fatima newts in y' jungle juice bats for y' flaps llamas of narnia aardvarks are hardier bubbles & babbleships scraps in y' naps ...