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please bear in mind ( dnim ni raeb esaelp )
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leaves on the line
saturday teatime
sixteen down
owls underground
sodium hydroxide
caesar’s word salad
seventeen across
broken biscuit english
a pebble in your shoe
two pied wagtails
phasers set to stun
the moon beneath the sun
the shape of last wednesday’s
iridescent chinstrap
horizontal lightning
& impromptu picnics
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asking for trouble ( elbuort rof gniksa )
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moles in pigeonholes
pool balls in snooker pockets
shrews in lieu of screws
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dream snippet sheet ( teehs teppins maerd )
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freddie mercury
sang living on my own
on the planet mercury
to an audience of owls
& trans-nightjars
who identify as owls
( species is a social construct )
meanwhile on earth,
the prophet-man muhammad
plays a set of swingball
with a then fluorescent ewok
upon the mossy lawn
watch that backhand
– three treecreepers
four white stags
on the tip of mam tor
krishna-christ tickles
the toe’s of anne frank’s kitty
who his so well
that the nazis never found her
sevens suns rose
like muffins in the oven
said your step-godmother
but dressed as an elf
in a telepath tongue
( ? )
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a lass ( ssal a )
…
a lass
poor yorick
his nob fell off
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patchy ( yhctap )
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i spy vegetable
beds among the thicket’s rough
with my pirate eye
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nine lines of something ( gnihton fo senil enin )
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be my beeline
buzzing over clover’s
cloven hoofed interlude
deep blue in between
beans in a bonnet
down beneath the clouds
on a green seesaw
puffing like a puffin
– i’ll bee your detour
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a load of old showbiz necro-cults ( stluc-orcen dlo fo daol a )
…
& a nightingale farts
like a pat upon the pastures
from the arse of a bull
but in berkley square
where x-r morris dance
dressed as gloaming ghosts
in bleach white sheets
ironed by a maid
silent like the actress
who drinks the blood of shrews
on a tuesday afternoon
or a certain thursday morning
goading the gas
from the reverend rectal passage
pissing on the pulpit
with ruby red paint
as the quiz show host
with a secret goblin mistress
vomits on a furry
in his dungeon dressing room
see these manic mannequins
wanking abstract mime
bobbing like cadavers
in a pop star’s hot tub
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inking not sinking ( gniknis ton gnikni )
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plod the trail of snail
once upon a chapter one
catch a passing tale
writing like a ghost
penning then of phantom friends
letters in the post
piffle on a pad
paddles up a squeaking creek
scribbles of the mad
tickle as a rib
in the static attic’s flap
dancing with a nib
rise ‘n’ take a sheet
wake the willing fool & spool
quill the incomplete
never-ending list
of a morning’s yawning spawn
pissing in the mist
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dancing on your onus ( suno ruoy no gnicnad )
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he’s a prancing prat
& the rat in rat-a-tat
trotting as the fox
snores within his den
when the sun’s a gun
triggering the squealing queen
she’s a loon at noon
twirling topsy terpsichore
spinning like a loom
whirling dervishly
see the fingers point
from the self-anointed ones
thundering the underlings
twickers in a knist
fire from above
feet upon umbra
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re-signing not resigning ( gningiser ton gningis-er )
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kiss the frog
a river in the fog
scatterbrain
the clatter of the rain
kicking clods
a fool upon a plod
nature’s scapes
us still organic apes
spin a reel
the spanning of a wheel
scratch a drift
the riddle of the rift
raft a boat
upon the notion float
peeling in
a song beneath the skin
focus out
the in within the sprout
seal with ink
a poet’s kitchen sink
comatose
the clutter in the close
spring anew
upon the scribble’s dew
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resarf poetry 