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pppoooeeetttrrryyy ( yyyrrrttteeeoooppp )
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pisspot platitudes
pennies from magonia
purple prose comas
odd sock odysseys
otters in your pocket watch
operatic owls
etch upon the mist
elemental excrement
echoes in hedgerows
type tripe titterings
trundle up the eiderdown
tonguing twisted toss
roar like a mouse mat
roundabouts & out again
row your floating boat
yet the yeti see
yesterday’s a paper plane
you fucking pilchard
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the things we write ( etirw ew sgniht eht )
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dear mrs. worthington,
fear not the fog lights
wish you were hearsay
seven bellend lane
long for a gone walk
or silverfish fishing
full moon looming
oven’s in the dinner
porpoises, portals
scribble ’til you’re normalzzz
god is an onion
sincerely yours, anon
ten crisp crescent
messrs so & so
wet paint drying while
– this pen is running ou
see how they rumba
episode three
once upon a double dip
chapter ninety nine
die, you fucking goblins
don’t forget a brollie
eat more broccoli
see you in the morrow
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match sticks ( skcits hctam )
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twin twigs
mirror sprigs
snap branches
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after the discharge ( egrahcsid eht refta )
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since my nurse dispersed
& evaporated
like a tin of milk
or a sundae on the sun
as the doctors turned
& faced a flu religion
baring hair shirts
upon their lips & nostrils
all is rubber walls
sputum in a gale
see the weasels scurry
them that banged the pots
‘bet they watch the telly
& laugh at ant ‘n’ dec
– yonder, palmate newts
& fire salamanders
fall from welkin heights
splatter like rain
normalz hides indoors
never lives again
as the right dog barks
up the wrong fig tree
yes, the world went mad
when i became sane
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red rhymes in blue rooms
the centipede emperor
drinks milky tealights
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pen ( nep )
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pen a sea of ink
see the kraken eating tea
cakes as clippers sink
plink a twisted nap
dreaming of contortionists
’til the buggers snap
plonk the plums of thyme
life on planet excrement
write this shit in rhyme
pluck a burst of herbs
plough with owls & dance with nouns
adjectives & verbs
pen a sword of sorts
swish as if a scribble’s knight
fight the normalzzz thought’s
pant a pencil’s case
shavings fall from sharpeners
larkers scrawl & face
penguin penumbras
penicillin pentagrams
pungent pensioners
pen another then
ink of squids & tentacles
vegetables & men
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nonet off … ( … ffo tenon )
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if the seventy seventh brigade
or other bot-brained weasel spawn
all those busybody ghouls
is reading what i’ve penned
posted online then
go fuck yourselves
you utter
fucking
twats
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screen-locked ( dekcol-neercs )
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spot the screen-locked
miss the the unseen
silver orbs soar
over clover
of a morning’s
nature dreamscapes
watching spats
& prancing doctors
see the flesh-bots
supping nectar
lap the sop
of puppy photos
texting friends
that loathe them deeply
dragons dance
in mackerel skies
saxon phantoms
plod their footsteps
roman ghosts
beside their stride
left of tread
the breathing undead
pixie shite
on the sole of their new shoes
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on it like a car bonnet nonet ( tenon tennob rac a ekil ti no )
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dancing badgers blather nuts in june
a sixpence in a chrysalis
sings a song of in between
croons in skeleton keys
as the sunset sweats
yet the moon is
shivering
& bats
flap
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( author notes )
a nonet is a poem that starts with a nine syllable line
& counts down to one
– in case you weren’t aware
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resarf poetry 