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we built this poem …

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we built this poem … ( … meop siht tliub ew )

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we built this poem
with the cheapskate ink

from a thousand
poundland pens

written by chimps
drinking p.g tips

in the jungles of the midlands
with a gibbon editor

we built this poem
with a million paper planes

& drops upon the panes
as it often rains

rhymes from behind
the anus of the sofa

candle wax & zinc
plus the kitchenette’s sink

when in rome – i toga
with a pointy nose

shadow ban this wrongthink
send the soy boys round

this is bracken english
normalzzz is an android

mettle melting ice
& a then reprise

we built this poem
from the scribbles of the daft

lost in uncle nature’s
hayloft

dance if y’know
the scatters of the flow

no refunds
serves y’ right f’ reading

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as the normalzzz snore

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as the normalzzz snore ( erons zzzlamron eht sa )

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up before the dawn

& before rob halford

      pissing on the lawn

      as a blackbird stirs

scribbles in the head

by the blanks of the river

      barking with the snarks

      on a park’s seesaw

when the then is zen

yet an impish ape

      as the normalzzz snore

      for software updates

larking in the dark

in the parliament of owls

      sipping milky tea

      rosy like the clover

up before the cockerels

cock-a-doodle doo

      shepherds spot the leopards

      as the cowherds moo

down in the dingles

squawking on the moors

      in between the doggers

      & the early morning joggers

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fukk thuh gram err puh-lease

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fukk thuh gram err puh-lease ( esael-hup rre marg huht kkuf )

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groaw yaw oan pohimz

doan’t lett thuh buggerz hoo

stampp inn littull bootz

puh-leasing thuh innturnett

telll yew wot 2 right

& gram err izz impawtunt

pluss ampersandz r rong

& cappihtull letturz mattuh

koz thair gobbshitez

& tossurrz

minnyunzz ov thuh daaknuss

botz wiv nuhthing insighed

doo yaw oan shitt

& bee anne indie-viddyewull

– peas

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rhyming the wave

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rhyming the wave ( evaw eht gnimyhr )

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positron a paradox
post another pillarbox
sailing on a dawning sea
up before the nobs ‘n’ cocks

roaming in the fields of gist
knickers in the river twist
guess the rest ‘n’ yonder’s he
– pan’s the antlers in the mist

as the stream of brainless glooms
spinning tails in sitting rooms
prosody’s an odyssey
tallis lives & music blooms

tosser television blurbs
blossom noons the vernal verbs
birds in baths ‘n’ bubble tea
while a wilder garlic herbs

dashing dots, the whats ‘n’ whys
watching as a hoglet flies
from a hedge for watching we
squawking under pickled skies

’til the moon is mooning cheeks
marbleous, the martian peaks
when the lark is larking be
in the garden, fixing leeks

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( author nodes )

shadow-banned by wrong’uns

with shite on their tongue

& nought but darkness

where their heart should be

while worse things happen at sea

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( or more precisely )

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( or more precisely ) ( ylesicerp erom ro )

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after the cows
come down from the clouds

hanging heady heads
& gurning like a gibbon

chewing on a wasp
– when gingerbread men

outwit foxes
as neil ferguson

wins the euro millions
with the numbers he predicted

so before midday
on the forty fourth of august

or a wonky evening
come the sixty ninth of june

with a meal for two
from a pea & a rice grain

under purple suns
on a nun’s front garden

until narnia
invades ruritania

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preamble

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preamble ( elbmaerp )

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once upon a this
sits a twat in candlelight
tosser be thy name

yes, the thy is me
we’s the river flowing so
dance another flame

as the normalzzz snore
’til the dandelions roar
stirring like a cock

cockerel – not a nob
but the cheese of poetry
as an unwashed sock

often whiffs a scent
washing pegs on nostril’s time
as a spanner scrawls

versing in reverse
i’m a spider – yet a fly
all is rubber walls

walk beyond the song
of a sinking cygnet swan
in a glugging tub

grow a glowing pear
where the air is chasing hares
nature is the rub

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