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a modern lament ( a p o e t r y e s s a y ( 1 0 s e c o n d r e a d ) )
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one-eyed cyclops qwerty psi-ops conscious desktop tempting matchbox burning night off soothing eyes pop falling laptops how come? ( black box ) ...
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a modern lament ( a p o e t r y e s s a y ( 1 0 s e c o n d r e a d ) )
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one-eyed cyclops qwerty psi-ops conscious desktop tempting matchbox burning night off soothing eyes pop falling laptops how come? ( black box ) ...
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balladeer dream ( a h o p e i n v e r s e – f o r m )
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i'd like to be a balladeer thence wander far & near but mainly near - i can't be arsed to stray too far from here yet still i'd graft with ballad fare yeah, all that crazy shoot recounting yarns in rusty barns whilst strumming on me lute a balladeer? oh yes please please no, not soppy pop songs or animals - they're fallow deer stop muddling, you're wrong no cavalier cashiers for me 'stead words with strings i've plucked until death calls ( dum - dum - dee - dum ) & then all's proper fucked ...
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mayday calm ( a p o e m )
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there is no panic, still there's time it's early, blurry stirs the mind as birds they sing in chirpy chimes as curtains stir - up come them blinds the water still flows in yon stream as queens awaken from their dreams & lambs bounce mad - they're full o' beans i haven't heard a frantic scream as morris men awake & yawn then dress with bells upon this morn those doom-merchants have yet to warn of blah - blah - blah plus warring storms i plod that path beside the barn upon that hill wearing no charm for luck i clutch air in my palm which does the trick it's mayday calm ...
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wild strawberries ( a b r i e f o b s e r v a t i o n )
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wild strawberries the clues in the name wild strawberries refuse to be tamed ...
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unamused ( s o m e p o e t r y )
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what's funny about farms?
what's funny about about bones?
i grew up on a farm
was that a funny home?
my skeleton beneath
has never-ever spoke
let alone tickled folk
with a funny joke
( ? )
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a conversation ( r e m e b e r t h e m ? )
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chat we are scraps of encyclopedias let's dissect the lie that is social media ( in person ) ...
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my broken toe hell ( a t r u e m o a n a b o u t f u c k a l l r e a l l y )
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oh broken toe my scarpered flow i fell - you clicked the crunch of woe that sound we know we dread it so horrific yet some faint hope glows through dark shadows well dark are those in dreams i dream then green shoots grow oh broken toe i'm okay though it's poetry put on a show ...
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bastard chapters ( s o m e p o e t r y )
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dog-shit-free shoes - wanker trainers broken toe groans - fortune favours the jammy & thin ice skaters lucky twats their fluky capers worse things happen at dot-dot-dot dick'ead clichés & their what not tangled rambles - daft apeth knots fucking swearing that hits the spot no blister weeps of a morning like a bellend, frogs are spawning hobble home quick - gobshite's calling take no ice bath 'stead get scrawling as that crow flies - scratch a surface shit on paper, burn a furnace bastard chapters - scrappy verses sadness blessings happy curses ...
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you who you you poem ( s o m e o f a p o e m s )
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you who you you is a who to you too & who too too? possibly sue so you you you so who too as you do quarter past two fuckle my shoe said you you who to a shrew wise & blue plus you know? stranded in crewe et yet you do said do you with an ooh et cetera forever too ...
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fuck off ( a p o e m )
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the ostrich has bolted
your feathers have moulted
your business has folded
your peasants revolted
your park is a wasteland
punctured are your armbands
the penny has dropped &
sunk beneath sinking sands
your attics been rummaged
shat out is your roughage
you're packed in as luggage
good riddance bad rubbish
it's night where your sun shone
pure gravy since you've gone
hands wavy - you've done one
fat ladies sing swansongs
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