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( ~ )
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in the morning’s moo
music is the glue
stick it like a twig
branch another jig
catch a cabbage star
see the phantom far
scrawling back again
pissing in the rain
as the maidens milk
juice a sheen of silk
churn a rusted key
warble forth & see
pigs in yawning skies
soar with butterflies
prose on toasted bread
some o’ those & spread
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rise & shine ( enihs & esir )
…
spring in sunlight’s spark
lambent like a lanternshark
so ‘n’ glow to work
…
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the things we taste ( etsat ew sgniht eht )
…
rain on the tingles
of an outstretched tongue
sweet saharan sand
if she pisses from the south
gloopy spoons of custard
straight from the can
frozen pizza slices
– but i prefer the cooked ones
twisted tales of thule
& a hymn from hyperborea
spinning in the blizzards
of those polar vortices
mushy peas ‘n’ cheese
on a buttered, toasted crumpet
bluebottles buzzing
in our curried parsnip soup
fresh bull dung
from the paper’s latest headline
vindaflu ‘n’ chips
with a naan to kill y’ nan
tea, if we scribble
in the riddle of the morning
milk, six sugars
plus a tin o’ ginger nuts
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g7 ( 7g )
…
gangrenous
globalists
gutless
goblins
gloaming
gimps
& goshawks
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adjective, noun & verb ( brev & nuon ,evitcejda )
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ardent aardvarks ascend
baboonish beavers bassoon
chemical cosmonauts conga
dead diplodocuses dither
english eels echo
feathered frenchman foghorn
gallant gasmen gargle
holographic housewives howl
itchy iguanas isobar
junkie janitors jamboree
kaput kettles kip
lazy lighthouses lap
milky martian marvel’s
nonchalant normies nosedive
operatic onyxes ossify
pisspot prussians placate
quizzical queens quacking
red rosebushes retreat
sylpihd saturday shakes
turgid tuesday’s toes
underling unicorns utter
vampish vole vibrations
weeping weasels wassail
xanthum xylophones xylocarp
yellow yesterday yarns
z-list zeus zithers
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full of ess ( sse fo lluf )
…
since sweet saturn sang
snoozing statues slobber
sailors sneeze sardines
signets swim sideways
swallows snog swifts
sheep spot shepherdesses
soaring strawberry skies
soldiers serenade snarks
so soothsayers shrug
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offerings ( sgnireffo )
…
cobwebs, candle wax
pencil shavings, anoraks
paper planes & trains
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22nd century shopping list ( tsil gnippohs yrutnec dn22 )
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bottled europan water
fizzy & teeming with microbes
edible plastic bread
synthetic bakewell tarts
holographic jaffa cakes
parsnips, parsnips
& yet more parsnips
– all for our martian overlords
bolt-bonios
for my robot dog
nightie
for my robot wifey
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banana skin shit ( tihs niks ananab )
…
smoked, like a pope
or a gangland kipper
with green tea leaves
in a mother of a bifta
under silver skin of rizla
with a great imagination
or a magic carrot wand
once the swan is like a magpie
in the ides of june – or somesuch
with odd socks on
don’t forget your anorak
nicknacks, bric-a-brac
syntax saddle shat
beeswax beats
with a goblin, in the forest
of forever’s feathered foghorn
forming shape interface
with a sylphid spirit level
as the gasman gasps
& the mighty milkman sleeps
but the pheasant fez is onions
up a tuesday afternoon
off the tits of wednesday teatime
– that’s a fuckin’ trip
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the things we touch ( hcuot ew sgniht eht )
…
sticky conker buds
in the doldrums of spring
keys in back pockets
chiming in time
pimples with a pinch
& nettles with a wince
rain upon skin
if the grey snakes in
clouds, if we climb
up a baked bean stalk
sound with a quake
as the bones vibrate
hands with a shake
coz the ‘rona’s overrated
toes with a creak
& chins with a stroke
butter fingered smoke
clutching ghost straws
hearts of lost souls
barge poles – with barge poles
sheet, if we ink
phantom tangents in fog
& cloth
when we leg it to the bog
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resarf poetry 