contemporary poetry

bus station poem

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bus station poem ( a real-life scribble )

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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 )

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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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year of the cock

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the year of the cock ( some a poetrys of the )

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all the chicken tasted of chicken

so i stopped eating chicken


all the meat tasted of chicken

so i don't eat any meat


all the produce of the beasts

it tasted of chicken

so i became a vegan


( but )


all the fruit & vegetables

taste of chicken

- everything's pissin' chicken -

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