panic at the pumps

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panic at the pumps ( spmup eht ta cinap )

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panic at the pumps
see the monkey troops

fisticuffs at teatime
fighting for bananas

spot the scree unfold
watch the little bots

warring on the forecourts
stuck in frenzy mode

barking up the trunks
of a wrong’uns tree

are there signs of life
on this planet pantomime?

bollocks on the snooze
told them all to come

all of them at once
abra & cadabra

giz a fuckin’ break
a lobotomy

for this daily maelstrom
this laboratory

crossed with lavatory
so the piper plays

as the normalzzz groans
– aaarrrggghhh

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spin between

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spin between ( neewteb nips )

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the deed is dung

underneath an oak tree

      see the hanging man

      as a greenfinch sang

so, sweet chestnuts

sucked within the drawing room

      scribble with a grin

      churning like a milky key

sugar is energy

elemental penfriends

      ink a spirit tongue

      like a speaking sprite

while away from here

peer beyond the duck pond

      idle like the bones

      of a snoring brontosaurus

blowing with the wind

from a parsnip farmer’s arse

      gleaming in the stream

      seeking seas of bream

i had a magic dream

& in my dream i saw you

      happy on the moon

      dancing with baboons

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hashtag poem

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hashtag poem ( meop gathsah )

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# cheese & pickles

# the clifton suspension bridge

# bring back echoes

# save the tiger bread

# i love what they’ve done with your earlobes

# it’s raining frogs again here

# why are all scarecrows men?

# politics – blah, baa, blah

# beans on toast

# barnard’s star

# the m42

# turnip lives matter

# easter on ekofisk

# i think i’ve just seen a goblin

# christmas is cancelled

# cockerels can lay eggs too

# pebbles in espadrille shoes

# selfies, selfies, selfies

# yes, there’s a chill in the air

# is anyone there… ?

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bendgame

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bendgame ( emagdneb )

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scrambled eggs
candle wax, onions & kippers
turpentine
vicars with twists in their knickers

pints of milk
silken, the web of a spider
bare’s the air
haunting an orchard of cider

conkers fall
all is a portal & prancing
mincing mist
sneezing the breezes & dancing

spin the close
clover is fading & floating
face the beige
inking a riddle & noting

summer’s dead
dancing with saville in hades
exit left
leg it from lollipop ladies

ombudsmen
chartists & chartered accountants
seasons chafe
change is a poet’s endowment

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o couplet, all ye faithful

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o couplet, all ye faithful ( lufhtiaf ey lla ,telpuoc o )

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see a sea ahead within a head
sing of biscuit men & gingerbread

tread the ashen path of scatter graph
as the rabid badger rabbles laugh

& the little village weasels spin
spanners for another stroking chin

gossip for an ever-growing nose
but the riddled river giver flows

so the kicks ‘n’ rhythms run away
chase the kitchen sinking sun of day

irk the scourge of worms within the bonce
poop’s a scoop & normalzzz is a nonce

lark beyond the puppet’s dungeon door
prancing not the marbled march of war

talk t’ trees & squirrels in the park
watch the starlings twinkle after dark

scribble as a scrambled scrabble board
glory be & spank the horny lord

in the staggered mist of mystery
rhyming like a throbbing dictionary

chuckles in a double-buckled shoe
music is the muse’s mutant glue

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