but brussles has the sprout

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but brussles has the sprout ( 34.578 second read )




yes stephen has his evens

& thomas has his doubts

summer has its strawberries

& trout lips have their pout



well lucy has her locket

robert thompson has his mouse

babylon has those gardens

& wendy has her house



bigamists have their weddings

& town criers have their shouts

libraries have their bookworms

little teapots their spout



all pauses have a moment

all wheres have thereabouts

arthur wields excalibur

but brussles has the sprout

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( all we really want )

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( all we really want a 16 line jaunt by ian van paragraph )






galore galore

we want it all

the food must stuff

the wine must pour


galore galore

don't spare you bore

more napkins squire

more podgy whores


more sedatives

we'll snore galore

amphetamines

we'll deck the halls


& then ourselves

carnage galore

a til death brawl

bodies sprawl floors

- galore -

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hat query

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hat query ( lines inspired by an old music hall banger-tune-anthem-tune )




where did you get that hat

that pairs well with your threads

( ? )

from some bloody battlefield

prized from some dead sod's head

( ? )

an heirloom or whitsun gift

it sits so proud atop

( ? )

did it just appear one day

( ? )


- i bought it in a shop -


( a hat shop )

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confused december

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confused december ( 1 min read )




ambling down this country lane

dog beside us - sun above

nothing much is on the brain

just sundries, their like & such


on a day that thinks its spring

quite unseasonal ado

pheasants strut - rabbits fucking

december is well-confused


catkins, blossom, new lambs - lo

puzzling - is this a trick?

shat knows just go with the flow

happy easter - all that shit


but seasons are fickle sorts

now's winter lest we forget

the next wind could freeze us all

so don't count them chickens yet

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ramifications

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ramif … ( a poem-free-free-poem )





horned or not they'll charge at you

they'll headbutt - boss it - buck


woollened backs can reach the sky

so pray for lady luck


( aye )


be that village villain

meddle with the ways of man


have truck with all truckers

but don't fuck with them rams

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there shats a plover

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( hangover poem ) by 18 lines of ‘ing read



in the beginning

there was sober

now bells knell

dogs piss on clover


damn you shandy

your hangover

above my

( head )

there shats a plover


a quiet drink

became bender

gay hunchbacks?

i don't remember


phuket - thought i then

it's december

i now sweat

( like )

a sex offender

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