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comb your palms ( a b a s t a r d p o e m t h i n g )
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comb your palms & style 'em smart dye your palms - light tones or dark feel it frizz-up in the wind wear rubber gloves when you swim plait your palms like girly bread or perhaps pigtails instead grow your palms coz summer's here ( trim your arse, nose, back & ears ) ...
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sheep breed wallchart ( a t r u e t a l e o f t r u e )
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sheep breed wallchart on the kitchen wall over time i've slowly learned 'em all sheep breed wallchart oh how do ewe do? rams, lambs, tegs - yes flockin' cool are you sheep chic top sheet nice one, that's my style sheep breeds of the ( quite ) great british isles sheep breed wallchart rockin' in me home my favourite's the derbyshire gritstone ...
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your early work ( a p o e m )
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oh once upon a once upon
before squirrels went grey
you scribbled like an imp possessed
& ripples became waves
some sorts adore your recent dross
its glib modernity
deft, delicate yet puzzling
but that shit's lost on me
yes i prefer your early work
from younger, former days
before you were a wrong'un tit
a tosser & a knave
before you turned to cardigans
& drank peppermint tea
when crayons scrawled on y'old cave walls
your finest
poetry
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the scum on the news ( a p o e m )
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i curse then worse the scum on the news why stop at tuts or pantomime boos ( ? ) all of the scum coz scum run the news they lie - 'tis true with their scummy spew it's scum o'clock so on goes the news piss politics & shat ballyhoo then terrorists scare children on cue the show goes on & now back to you ( x ) ...
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mumbling stomachs ( a n o t h e r e f f o r t ( i s h ) )
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mumbling stomachs with blithering fingers erratic eyebrows here's one for the thinkers codes on those elbows - they're mish-mashed in tangles clues on yon kneecaps ( hopefully ) plus ankles adverbs in armpits are subtly stinking eyelashes curse all there's blinkin' 'n' blinkin' dictionaries can't scratch mere surface lest manage poetry clashes with this body language ...
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on the detour to damascus ( a l i t t l e s t o r y )
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on the detour to damascus twelve miles or so from neath god came - hooray you changed your name from gavin to keith ( & then back to gavin ) ...
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not the snail ( a m i n i – e p i c )
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hit the nail not the snail on the head snail - prevail ...
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a sailor went ( dot-dot-dot ) ( a n o l d p o e m o f m i n e )
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a sailor went to sea, sea, sea to see what he could see, see, see & all that he could see, see, see was saint francis of assisi ( si, si, si ) ...
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nuclear family ( a p o e t r y )
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father glowed strange orange shades mother had ten arms sister's head was mushroom shaped on our mushroom farm great uncle plutonium would often come & stay summer never visited ( winter never went away ) ...
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theatre trip ( s o m e o ‘ t h a t )
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i snored before the end of act one ...
resarf poetry 