an interlude

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an interlude ( warning: may contain traces of asbestos &/or verse )



so this here is an interlude

blown bubbles through some limbo land

a hiatus - ice cream in lieu

a recess from some grander plan


delays within an interim

a detour down them cul-de-sacs

before things again rebegin

enjoy it - these things cannot last

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how snow melts

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how snow melts ( an obbzurrvayshunn )



first stirs its sleep

comatosed sheets

then drip by drip

in bits of weep


retreats the white

under daylight

what's liquid may

freeze come the night


oft gradually

thaws tortoisely

then foliage

again to see


on higher ground

it sticks around

that's how snow melts

( or so i've found )

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leaky stuff

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leaky stuff ( a true tale of woe )




yes information leaks from me

maybe within there lurks a mole

certain key words lie splurged on streets

so find that traitor - block that hole


( ? )


my journal from last whitsun eve

is soon to be a west end play

that mental note i wrote last week

arrived in the post yesterday


( ? )


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bus station poem

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bus station poem ( a real-life scribble )




at bay twenty's

human zoo

patience - stations

queues for queues


old folk natter

that & this

odd folk they write

shit like this


un-tinned sardines

waiting for

godot or the

six point four


or the rapture

trumpets blown

( hurry driver )

( help us home )

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my two thousandth wife …

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my two thousandth wife ( a true tale )



well now my two thousandth wife

yes i've been married a few times

i'm no bigamist or sheikh

no just particularly like cake


plus i'm good at stealing rings

so then it doesn't cost a thing

one day she burst into flames

in a sudden cloudburst of rain


which to you might sound bizarre

but honestly that's how things are

in seconds mere she was ash

unsavable - gone in a flash


next down the drains her ash went

as my shocked eyes wept sad laments

then came grief - the deepest woe

but that was many wives ago

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