why the solar system’s warming up

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why the solar system’s warming up ( pu gnimraw s’metsys ralos eht yhw )

farting cows on venus
phosphorus the farmer

martian spiders driving
hench monster trucks

clouds of phantom gas
from the anus of uranus

barbecues on neptune
– how bloody dare they?

no one on jupiter
dyes their hair purple

green or rainbow
– the keiper belt’s a gammon

no one respects
mercury’s pronouns

every sunday saturn
burns a bonfire

pluto never banged his pots
or wore a face nappy

anything but
the sun we all orbit

the morris dancers ( ! )

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the morris dancers ( ! ) ( ( ! ) screcnad sirrom eht )

they live upon the fringes
like black eyed bus conductors

half within this whirl
fifty percent elsewhereish

perchance a c.a.m.r.a inn
on a cousin frequency

emerging when the chimes
knell them into eyesight

prancing like a hart
bobbing as a robin

on a beltane morn
or at the vicar’s garden party

men with wood clash
rod on rod action

erato wets her knickers
lost in mutant music

skipping like a scratched e.p
watch those bellends go

bobs on boxing day
in the corners of our vision thing

where the faeries play
games of hide & seek again

fading in & otherling
with their wonky radios

waving handkerchiefs
wafting white wraiths

what the folk are you?
what the folk is glowing on?

i’ve yet to catch a live one
& keep it in my net

they wriggle like a stickleback
then vanish as a phantom

b a r d

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b a r d ( d r a b )

bark a rabid dirge

blacken a red door

blue a roan donkey

bloom a rosy dawn

bite a ripe damson

blow a raspberry – doughnut

build a rocky den

breathe a rousing dew

boat a river down

bob a robin’s dance

brush a rascal dog

bumble a runcible ditty

bee a rainy day

bright against rising darkness

bugger all robotic diktats

bring a rubber duckie

lost in muesli

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lost in muesli ( ilseum ni tsol )

deader than prince phillip
rosencratz or elvis

woe’s a broken flow
a simian simile

a monkey up a tree
a gibbon wrapped in ribbons

the road ahead is blueness
& not on google earth

the birth of venus teases
a botticelli bot

& huff behind the blinds
saving us from daylight

the morn’ before i saw
a kingfisher catch

a freshwater kraken
the size of an ice cream van

& ran home to tell
the man on the news

who laughed at my tale
the rest’s a beached whale

a bee in a sonnet
a pocketful of breadcrumbs

dreaming still of yous
in me unlaced oxford shoes