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umbrella terms ( smert allerbmu )
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shade from the death rays catcher of suns rampart of stars stalwart of cagoules friend of old biddies picnics & funerals buffer of floods anagram of lure lamb portable spinney woodland with legs bulwark of hale roaming snow shelter awning for the people aegis of sleet the rooftop that spins - all of the above ...
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those rose hips ( spih esor esoht )
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a sip from a hip flask a whiff of hibiscus hippocrates hiccups a hipster hypnosis a ship in a haystack & sing with the hinnies as yonder a hippy is hip-hip hooraying a groan in the whipped bones & hippodrome home so with mud in the blood & a chipped hippocampus a hymn in the wingspan a hippogriff flapping the hunger of hippos & oh, those rose hips ...
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beyond the peas ( saep eht dnoyeb )
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beneath the glum of fiddle dum
the portents scrawl to kingdom scum
the sun's the star
of trar-luh-lar
as orchards hang & bang's a drum
within the squirms of earthen toss
the tripe of the likes, the writes of doss
the broken bones
the drones of clones
a drip of piss, a pint of dross
upon the song of flaccid rain
& squiggles of the lizard brain
the surface soil
as saucepans boil
a dream unseen - it's beige again
a yawn is born, the squall of squibs
a trickling of tickled ribs
a stickleback
a sack o' cack
the pilfering of pilchard nibs
beyond the peas of tees & hees
& limericks of chortled cheese
the normalz sorts
guffaws & snorts
for weasels with lobotomies
i ode to glow & lick the moon
& dance the ants of pantaloon
a pad, a pen
a scrap & then
the nadgers of a splattered loon
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march is an arch ( hcra na si hcram )
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march is an arch spring is a duster feathers & fluster flap in the green flap in the green croak as a crocus hocus the pocus leap as a bean leap as a bean winter's a possum yonder is blossom blue is a bell blue is a bell red is a tulip hymn with y' two lips sing in the dell sing in the dell ring in the dingle spin as a spindle run with the dogs run with the dogs badgers are pairing rabbits are haring boxing the frogs boxing the frogs sting in the nettles settle as petals under the larch under the larch ink in the middle scribble this piffle march is an arch ...
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whitsun’s children ( p o e m z )
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buttercup fingers clutching at green straws plasters & pastures snakes in the hay tangles in brambles spin on a hillock glue of the goosegrass stick in the step born on a picnic twinned with the polecat castor & pollux bollocks et al sting in the nettles bruises & bat flaps flutter as pencils quill in the gaps ...
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world whirr 5 ( a p o e t r y )
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cloud-shroud balladeer
brontosaurus broccoli
cowpat caravan
goldfinch weather map
sugar snap pea shepherdess
stoat throat-singalong
goshawk gathering
mother earth & morris men
bus pass brussel sprouts
ten squid tentacles
anchors of a wanker war
quarter past wednesday
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you should get into politics that's what folk say which never means you should do it just means go away even i know that one no need to huff or scoff you should get into politics i.e fuck off ...
All geese are Nazis when they walk - no silly talk it's POLITICS not twaddle. Even if it's just another goosey-gander-waddle; webbed feet left 1st then right they're terribly Third Reich ...
In the kingdom of the blind everybody fumbles, meanwhile in the mindscape the filing system: Jumbled. Mustn't but grumble as blessed are the oblique, raspberry jam, exosphere - there's wisdom in this speak. Asphalt harpie felch, ride a white kelpie squelch traces of places dispersed on scattered ground, critical-utopian monkey spunk monkey spunk I know that there is gnosis here just waiting to be found ...
There's a tiny black hole at the bottom of the garden - it must have just appeared there overnight. & from a safe distance I lob in votive offerings like hawthorn twigs or a Twix or Bombay mix & the like. Which it so-so silently gulps so assumably approves - yes in a strange way Dave & I have become bestist friends. Oh there's a tiny black hole at the bottom of the garden - but he's definitely expanding so now 1 ponders when will it end ? ...
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