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journal jerks

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on a muddled day
as the beanstalks climb
up ‘n’ up away
blue bewilders grey
once upon a rhyme

pen the when of then
with the wink of know
chuckle rubber hen
murmur maids in men
fishy be thy flow

paper planes ‘n’ cars
magic carpet burn
phantom handlebars
yonder’s trah-luh-lahs
yesterday’s an urn

open books ‘n’ worms
squirming in tin cans
aahs becoming erms
piffle reaffirms
shat is hitting fans

sigh a butterfly
sun between the rain
as the crowbars fly
speckled you & i
dot the dots again

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the mithering of now

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tractor beam evening
two wood pigeons

new grey trainers
us below in though

or shadow plus one
up on his lamppost

do you coo too?
vegetables & voodoo

singsong sixish
mister porter’s daughter

thoughts of missus worthington
sun behind the curtains

certain of your skirting boards
& unburnt crumpets

five sips left
aluminium tripods

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something new

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tuesday morning swanned in
with the gutsy grace
of a fatso ballerina
with popcorn lung

after sunday’s oh so
suspicious demise
maybe colonel mustard

was clueless too in cluedo
& mrs. white staged it all
with a crafty poem
then legged it for the sunshine
or got bored with board games

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as lizards bask in warm
summer something blizzards
let a second moon hatch

from the cracking shell
of the scrambled eggheads head
in a muddle’s up
peaches inside stones
fruitful be thy quarry

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lines re the laughter in the woods

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horned like the morning

striding on crunches

cornflake flooring

feet twig beneath

us two fools

in matching green cagoules

seeking a glimpse

of the nymphs or sasquatch

once grey rooftops

gave way to cloaked oak

there where the elfin

cracks us up like popcorn

robin hood’s hood

the lord of misrule’s old skool

in this cosmic copse

in his leafen universe

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