bakewell tartaria

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bakewell tartaria ( airatrat llewekab )

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bakewell tartaria

a frangipan land

      with raspberry jam

      & flaky butter pastry

the almonds of yore

with rivers of custard

      a pudding erased

     ( as seen in daydreams )

the internet’s abuzz

– of course they still had teatime

      during all them mud floods

      in the daze of yon

so put the kettle on

& let the steam scream

      drool on a stool

      & type yourself normalzzz

prod the phantom veil again

flee the cave unchained

      smoke another bifter

      sing a wanker song

a flan for all seasons

for truthers with sweet tooths

      & pubes upon their palms

      who think this egg’s a dome

( nob’eads )

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( author notes )

this poem is dedicated to the late archbishop desmond tutu

who’s now in heaven with his father, desmond one one

so thoughts & prayers to his wife, mrs. tutu

& their lovely baby boy, desmond three three

– long live the desmonds

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secret code – secrete cod

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secret code – secrete cod ( doc eterces – edoc terces )

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bury fear in february
find the charm in march

& emit time
flowing in wolf gin

seek the lows in owls
spud war & upwards

clod us in clouds
reach for stars or tsars

spinning so in sinning sop
breathing in giant herb

ogle v in glove
see the vole in love

oscillate those lilac toes
santa & satan

live life like an anagram
or
a rag man

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s o l s t i c e

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s o l s t i c e ( e c i t s l o s )

…

s outhern or northernmost

   sun on a seesaw

o nce the up is down

   or the down is up

l ower than an earthworm

  lofty like a goshawk

s pot the burning ball

   scramble up a hillock

t ry & lick its chin

   tickle both its elbows

i n a heavy coat

   in a light t-shirt

c amera in hand

   catch the sinking rise

e quinox in three months

   eggs in a circle

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the stuff of sunday afternoon

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the stuff of sunday afternoon ( noonretfa yadnus fo ffuts eht )

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sweep the backyard
humming kumbaya

with a wooden brush
or a broom shaped branch

in the potting shed
tinker with your death ray

suck a murray mint
eat a sweet satsuma

hide from curtain twitchers
twisted like their knickers

win another stare-off
with a gawpy garden gnome

pause for a coffee
a sneezy & a burp

read the paper’s headlines
chuckle at the doom porn

laughing as the normalzzz
bask in mask psychosis

them of s & m’s whip
true ghoul fodder

draw a snoring stickman
scribble in a notepad

plod beside the river
under scrumpled sheets of mizzle

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actual pan sexual

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actual pan sexual ( lauxes nap lautca )

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he of hoofs ‘n’ horns

pan, the green man goosing nymphs

rutting in the woods

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( author notes )

dear attention seeking brats / rainbow gestapo

this is not shit-posting

just some harmless wordplay

so calm down

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we made the moon

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we made the moon ( noom eht edam ew )

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we lit the sun
with matches & straw
on whitsun
eighteen eighty four

my, what a sight
flaming ball of light
a lantern
after shafts of night

we peed the seas
mixing pop with tea
& coffee
– a cacophony

’til oceans flowed
where land disappeared
sages swear
stroking floating beards

we made the moon
with cheeses & glue
in april
nineteen ninety two

probably the first
before midday
that was all us
– or so we like to say

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