shapes of apes

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shapes of apes ( a true story & poem in places too )





the dales are ales & bursting birds

of bastard flaps & thirsting words

the ink is blinks & blank's the sheets

as weasels scheme & ladles stir


the morn is fawn & biscuit shades

of wanky wheat & sandy beige

the bonce is moors & bogs of peat

as teapots sing & august fades


the mouth is clouds & shrouded blurs

of citrus shreds & lemon curd

the dog is snores & depths of sleep

as talk is slurred & chimneys sweep


the trees are keys & plays unstaged

of secrets kept & wars yet waged

the hands are feet on vacant streets

the pith is chimp & shapes of apes

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squiffy elbows

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squiffy elbows ( 6 quatrains of piffle-vest )

 




feather freckled dinosaurs

finger tingled tidal boars

apple blighted acolytes

chocolate teapot labradors


jackknife island semaphore

junkyard carnage carnivores

serpent laddered stalactites

thunder stumbled underscores


summer sputtered hellebore

mammoth mangled megaspores

silent parrot parasites

peasant pageant petit fours


scrambled eggshell evermore

mustard gas mask guarantors

jagged jawline jacobites

trojan horsefly saddle sore


potion motion sycamore

spiny ivy iron ore

maybe knotted stalagmites

heckled henpecked heretofore


dicey icy sliding doors

drooping soupy superstores

accidental satellites

every twat's a troubadour

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sputtered dust

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sputtered dust ( 16 lines of 16 line read )





sputtered dust & ox-eye daisies

foggy ink & cobweb pens

country brains & lanes of hazy

custard skin our feathered friends


lumpy tongues & rhubarb gravy

willow spoons & bumpy bends

heeding hull & shades of hades

babylon stands on the thames


recently & fleeting lately

how d'you clue & see you then

cotton clouds & blues of navy

nestling the fledgeling hen


super moons & blooming daily

standing stones & woven hems

onion sobs & nods of maybe

muddying the bastard blend

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dodge the village hog shit

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dodge the village hog shit ( a poem )





toga knots & roadblocks

blow your roman nose job

bloody boots & odd socks

snot the local snooze pox


empty eyes & pin pricks

dip your soggy biscuits

paper planes & cockpits

spoon the parish toxic


puddle shops & vox pops

scrub your muddy soap box

throaty coughs & dross gloss

gob the pigeon squab-squad


itchy tongues & spun spit

every cunt's a pundit

sunken pubs & dung pits

dodge the village hog shit

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blame the uncles

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blame the uncles ( a rewrite of an older post )




honey suckled

dusty knuckles

chickens chuckle

in the muddle

monkey stubbled

drunken fumbles

geminis are

seeing double


up a muscle

thunder rumbles

focus crumbles

apple grumble

bungs in bundles

shush a mumble

dig for answers

grab a shovel


stomachs jumble

jumpy jungles

badgers juggle

bees & bumbles

adder hustles

stagger stumbles

storms are forming

shoes are buckled


tunnels funnel

fucking puzzles

waves of rubble

scuttle shuttles

float in bubbles

piss in puddles

personally i

blame the uncles

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