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cloak & stagger ( reggats & kaolc )
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after afternoon
a candle in a lantern
waxing gibbous moon
puddles on the path
universes bursting like
bubbles in the bath
little drips of dream
gibbon in a cable car
kettles singing steam
i’m a shade of grey
or the morning starling’s light
let the horses neigh
drifting like a plank
rhyming like a dictionary
scribbles in the tank
’til the cockerel crows
floating while the ‘rona drones
highs below the lows
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fragmental notes ( seton latnemgarf )
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don’t forget a key
a spanner & a handkerchief
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sodium hydroxide
half a jar of marmalade
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otters live in holts
but check your soggy pockets
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breezes blow begonias
– noses blow roses
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beethoven went deaf
when blessed with x-ray vision
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nineteen ninety two
sixteen forty five
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april rains forever
may contains nuts
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road ahead closed
cheese & pickle sandwiches
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rameses the second
spotted on the compost heap
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reinforced concrete
extra pairs of underwear
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this is not a circular
hence the jagged edges
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two o’clock tuesday
wear a grey cagoule
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hogs ( sgoh )
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wash from head t’those
rotter’s trotters, warts ‘n’ all
– goblins in hedgerows
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the turd wave ( evaw drut eht )
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waking as the pastures baa
nature is a morning star
walk before the sun is up
rising like a buttercup
with a camera & a pen
breathe beyond the lies of men
butterflies & bumblebees
blossom petals on the breeze
listen to the bells of blue
knelling not of mutant pooh
hit the hills & dance with ants
as the normalz shat their pants
hare the air & scribble on
plod a song – on airstrip one
wander from this sinking shit
– doris johnson is a tit
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oh, those noble gasses ( sessag elbon esoht ,ho )
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old king krypton
from another planet
helium caesar
floats as rome burns
xenon the warrior
prince among lasers
archduke argon
plums in his throat
oganesson the inbred
wedding many cousins
& princess neon too
the lady in the lamplight
long may they radon
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frog of a flower ( rewolf a fo gorf )
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ponds in the heavens
puddle above us
songs in a cycle
highs of a lotus
mizzle is a twisting
wandering yonder
seeing is breathing
misting the focus
naps of a catkin
rhyming & chiming
iris’s cousins
dog with a bonus
hush in the clatter
catching a feather
here in the blearing
fluttering locus
mapping this magic
pencils & paper
piddle a riddle
hocus the pocus
frog of a flower
raining in colour
down in the dingle
showers of crocus
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eat your fucking greens ( sneerg gnikcuf rouy tae )
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a leek in a bucket
a pea in the bog
& a can
of whoop-asparagus
( bon appetit )
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s c a t t e r s ( s r e t t a c s )
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s pring is in the wings
of a pigeon in a hole
c lutter flies the flag
like a weasel up a pole
a s the normalz dance
with the bollocks on the snooze
t hunder rumbles on
& an otter swims the blues
t ime is tickled green
in the even of the morn
e lephants forget
for the past is yet unborn
r unaway & bee
with the bumbles up the brae
s ing upon a hill
& buzz the scuzz away
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cee the light ( thgil eht eec )
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candelabras, candles
cars in the night
cats eyes blinking
cavitation bubbles
concoctions combust
chemiluminescence
cygnus, cigarettes
coruscating cityscapes
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quizzical contact ( tcatnoc lacizziuq )
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alphabet spaghetti
is illegal in slovenia
henry the eighth
was born in a hay barn
clay pigeons nest
in a hole in the earth
all dark matter
is a shade of magenta
one in four apples
is secretly a pear
bears smoke kippers
with the pope – in the woods
most gnomes freeze
if seen by human eye’s
pie chart pastry
is flaky – yet invisible
may flies live
for sixty seven moons
lemon curd is banned
in the land of kurdistan
stick to the path
or the thicket consumes
answers on a post-it note
– fact check & lose
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