lick the chin of sunday

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lick the chin of sunday  (  a  p o e m  f o r  w h a t  i t ‘ s  w o r t h  e t  a l  )





clasp a rasp of catchphrase

raspberries & ashtrays

tundra in the jungle

stumble on & that way


crab a path of sideways

apple pips & byways

fleeting as the evenings

greetings to the highways


wail a wall of doorways

possibly & always

bird a word of shat flaps

tracks upon the railways


dodge the bounce of replays

rabid bats & clichés

flop between the dot-dots

spot the cows as sheep graze


swoop the droop of boquets

muddy boots & tuesdays

ease within the easels

weasels in the wank maze


kiss the tip of edgeways

any which & lengthways

wobbles in the black pit

badger shit the essays


irk the scourge of surveys

unicorns & thursays

answers in a milk churn

burn the straw to make hay


lick the chin of sundays

chickenpox & sun rays

bobbles in the odd socks

plods beyond the dog days

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spoon coup

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spoon coup  (  a  p o e m  f o r  a  s u n n y  f r i d a y  a f t e r n o o n  )





sofa sales & lanky ladders

yeoman ales for patchy bladders

quaking quails with pickled feathers

burn the post to open letters


pantomimes & stagnant staggers

scraps of rhymes for bastard badgers

thunder thumps in jumpy sweaters

lemon thyme to twine the weather


crumble crumbs & bumble swaggers

thimble thumbs for humble matters

stumbles come in double-deckers

hue the glue with tints of heather


dusty pangs & rusty hammers

raspy bangs on crafty crackers

span the spin of restless never

cheese the breeze & dream in cheddar

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the stuff of slugs

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the stuff of slugs  (  a  p o e m  a b o u t  s l u g s  )




hamstring handstand cataracts

lapwing bandstand battleaxe

flipflop vox pop myrmidons

hamstring handstand cataracts


sanguine sandwich saddle wax

mudflap loophole super tax

milksop hopscotch lexicons

sanguine sandwich saddle wax


anthill anguish anoraks

jackknife jam-span avalanche

jet pack dive bomb avalon

anthill anguish anoraks


am-dram hangman habitats

bigwig wingspan haversacks

wigwam flimflam magnetron

am-dram hangman habitats


catnip crackpot crackerjacks

catnap wrist slap parallax

plastic mastic mastodons

catnip crackpot crackerjacks


rasping drastic rat-a-tats

static stumbled adder traps

jangled jungle thereupon

dizzy dangled sticky facts

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post-scrapes

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post-scrapes  (  s o m e  l o c a l  n e w s  )






i wail at walls when fungi spores

& spot the mess of bugger all

i wipe my eyes of residue

then meet with i - we rendezvous


i dodge the shots of cannonballs

& bask in peas then caterwaul

i sing of glue & buckled shoes

then shit & you & chuckle through


i peep at blinds when curtains call

& run a bath when evenings crawl

i pinch a pew & loosen screws

then plod my tod down avenues


i deck the bread to duck the halls

& quack my back when water falls

i wave at prunes & graveyard yews

then get punch drunk & steal the moon

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