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22 / 2 / 22 ( 22 / 2 / 22 )
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see flamingos float
one foot in the gravy boat
sail a saucy sea
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22 / 2 / 22 ( 22 / 2 / 22 )
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see flamingos float
one foot in the gravy boat
sail a saucy sea
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coffee & sneezy ( yzeens & eeffoc
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patter on the pane
pitter on again
nailing a tale
on a force ten gale
lock a locket tight
tenter is the night
hooked upon the spy
of a spider’s eye
when eleven calls
crawling up the walls
bolt a howling door
while the loft mice roar
spin a growling oak
heaving even’s soak
weave a drier though
’til horizons glow
…
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a bit of a div ( vid a fo tib a )
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moon in afternoon
merge in murky water
with your then reflection
peeping at the ripples
see the mincing mist
clear beyond the smear
of a camp campaign
& a spectral projection
faraway is late
never’s better though
parp another parsnip
as a crocus croaks
while the clocks fly
ticking like a bomb
or the creaking ticker
of a jibber-jabber man
wade in dunlop boots
rubber like a duck
or the dub – in tubs
sailing out & seabound
sun in shrouded cloud
coddled like an egghead
shine again – y’ wanker
giz a fuckin’ cuddle
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beyond the ruddy fourth wall ( llaw htruof yddur eht dnoyeb )
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island monkey me
sat in a hat by tealight
tries to do haiku
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whence-thence ( ecneht-ecnehw )
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alfred burnt a bridge
bridget saw the badgers
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dance a rabid rumba
’twas the dog’s nadgers
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brutus sang a song
judas screwed a hinge
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vlad inhaled a whiff
of a fishy minge
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by the harbourside
in the midland’s fog
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portia saw a phantom
on a moorland bog
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bertie blew a bugle
on the estuary
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martha met a martian
sat on platform three
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all aboard & papers
peter caught a fly
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buzzing in the parlour
– why-oh-bloody-why ? –
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arthur had a nap
as the sun was leaving
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in that little gap
between teatime – & evening
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spring gathering ( gnirehtag gnirps )
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bluebell ringer’s
buttercup churner’s
maidens with hot cross
buns in the ovens
sneezing breezes
feathered penfriends
dancing daffodils
foxtrotting badgers
faux-troubadours
shepherds spotting leopards
liquid snowmen
puddles in trouble
agnus daze
the hazy lamb
green old biddies
called hyacinth or iris
boxing heiresses
socking kidnappers
hepatitis beekeepers
buzzes under bonnets
where the air is rarer
than a ginger with a tan
dandelion tamer’s
& scrambled eggheads
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crocus pocus ( sucop sucorc )
…
a crocus – croak us
frogs upon a spawning morn’
abracadabra
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england in the nineties ( seitenin eht ni dnalgne )
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brian conley
was bradley walsh
bradley walsh
was brian conley
but no one noticed
even their mums
bernard matthews
banged the drums
boodiful
this mist of then
milkman whistled
brit pop songs
high on e
& sunny d
toblerones
were the size of the matterhorn
goblins roamed
the fields at night
after blair
the haunted air
saville was just
another showbiz oddball
the nation stopped for bay watch
& ready, steady cook
pelican crossings
on every other street
’til diana spencer
was epsteined
the chuckle brothers
were comedy gods
with their incredible
shell suits
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