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cheapskates on thin ice ( s o m e p o e m s t u f f )
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bargain hunters scan the land & prowl for prey all their days long bargain hunters pass it on & sell your soul ( sold for a song ) ...
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cheapskates on thin ice ( s o m e p o e m s t u f f )
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bargain hunters scan the land & prowl for prey all their days long bargain hunters pass it on & sell your soul ( sold for a song ) ...
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wipe ‘n’ wash ( an erm in verse but not ermine verse coz that’s stoats )
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is poetry real or just a word with just some words & how they feel ( ? ) where are my socks? is god still dead? is this your chin? & what is real ( ? ) ( fuck knows ) ...
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countryside lanes ( a f e w w o r d s t o g o w i t h t h e p i c t u r e )
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narrower than roads up them hills they wind scrambled as a code onward thinks the mind plodding through the dales come sunshine or rain come high winds stroke gales there's countryside lanes ...
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the curse of wednesday verse ( t w e l v e l i n e d i s c h a r g e )
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apple pips - sunk battleships great shapes of ape & cattle dips forks in roads & singing spoons my elbows glow impending doom holy cripes - shy poltergeists all ham's am' drammed that wrong's gone right chaffinches & challenges let's pray that wednesday manages ...
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advice to my younger elf ( a p i s s i n ‘ p o e m )
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many tentacles
yes, love is an octopus
none identical
oft some are innocuous
cool like pentacles
or penguins in mortuaries
love's an octopus
& warfare's an irate flea
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( 1 3 7 2 9 1 )
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ant problems ( ? ) ( a n o t h e r p o e m )
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there's enough cyanide in one apple pip to kill an ant & that's my tip ...
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john wesley was a celebrity methodist ( a t r u e p o e m )
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john wesley
was a celebrity
methodist
he gigged it
throughout the land
back in that
y'old eighteenth century
preaching
to all of his fans
john wesley
was a celebrity
methodist
an icon
& pin-up too
nowadays
he'd be in glossy magazines
whoring
as our celebs do
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farmers’ wives ( s o m e t r u t h s )
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farmers' wives ooh aarr ooh aarr farmers' wives beauty & charm farmers' wives frolics in barns farmers' wives always smell of farm ...
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hug a mugger ( s o m e s o u n d a d v i c e )
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hug a mugger kiss the bugger tongues & all sorts ( don't hold back ) ...