nan’s on the road

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nan’s on the road

in a hi-vis vest

      red like the bus

      at the queue’s tail end

vans honk horns

cars carp back

      morning, afternoon

      green is money’s honey

see the schemes of ghouls

pissing pantomimes

      what a bunch of cults

      witter earthen i

london is a floodplain

prone to tidal surges

      half of it was marshland

      before the pound signs flew

like a skein of goslings

frozen is the future

      autumn is upon us

      it’s cold out now

nan, come home

countdown’s on the telly

      ovaltine’s calling

      & gypsy creams

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the stirring brrr

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the game’s afoot – the foot’s a plot
the ‘rona crossed with mutant flus
a seven hundredth booster shot

the wank is back, the tosser’s spin
the shining shite upon the snooze
is beaming like a goblin’s grin

the even’ creeps, the morning rains
& all is balls ‘n’ cockatoos
escape the the chains of normalzzz brains

upon a wander in a wood
a traipse in tartan painted trews
a bobble hat beneath a hood

a skein is seen – a passing vee
is honking as the green adieus
the swearing air is victory

& bugger off ’til catkins purr
a farting partridge parps the blues
until’s a chill, the stirring brrr

is rising as a sliding scale
the letters bee in avenues
the end’s a bend & time’s a snail

a scatter graph, a spool of smoke
the numbers scrunch in twisted shrews
a stool of toads ’til crocus croak

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don’t feed the snarks

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let’s begin a brain

      broken english biscuits

open up the inn

      kiss the gibbon’s chin

love is in the hare

      where the rabbits run

rings around the sound

      of your wonky knees

cables overhead

      death is speckled breath

kippers in the mist

      over in the outhouse

down among the clouds

      mooning lunar cheeks

eating chalky cheese

      chasing tales of snails

check the meter’s off

      squawking on all fours

don’t feed the snarks

      donuts after dark

if the whistle’s wet

      when the muse is muesli

seek a greener sea

      pissing up a tree

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scatter’s brain

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scatter’s brain ( niarb s’rettacs )

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ants above
so below
sunken suns
ascertain

broken toes
crocuses
tractor tracks
aquaplane

simple socks
mist a trick
fog the dog
scratch the train

but the bend
butter beans
blending in
scatter’s brain

spin the head
spindle tree
pitta bread
patter pane

potteries
odysseys
oddities
dancing rain

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bot sonnet

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bot sonnet ( tennos tob )

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y 9 kippers 4 g y l m 2

7 1 j h n s x 4 a

1 2 p s l 7 shuffle n shoe

5 6 y h n 7 lemon j

y o p s a 8 parsnip k *

n b h g f d v l 4

gubbins b f d 2 4 5 6 9 r

seventy w mandible jaw

5 0 k l onions 9 8 pigeons

excrement 7 o internet x

o h l underscore ? smidgeons

@ goblin ampersand w hex

h b i k n 7 d f g

5 6 7 n 7 s d b

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ghosts, come closer

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ghosts, come closer ( resolc emoc ,stsohg )

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ghosts, come closer
from the yonder in

when’s october
then the veil is thin

in this sister
phantom land of yours

all is autumn
sup the pasture’s spores

space is spinning
like a spider’s trap

death is grinning
spreading like the clap

time is onions
pickled in a jar

pumpkins shining
like the morning star

ghoul moons rising
once the swallows leave

goblins dancing
on this hallow’s eve

ghosts, come closer
from the yonder in

when’s october
then the veil is thin

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