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picnic in the rain ( nair eht ni cincip )

…

shiver on a bench
bathing in a sunless grey
bask in britain’s drench

as the stratus gush
buckets on this darkened park
bread is formless mush

sandwiches collapse
like a castle on the beach
as the tide attacks

cirrus rat-a-tat
spilleth cups of former fizz
lemonade is flat

crisps have lost their crunch
where the piss is pounding down
sodden is this lunch

still the river roars
run before it eats us all
bugger off indoors
…

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a spiky sight ( thgis ykips a

…

see the giant cotton buds

spotted like measles

on the grasses, greening so

in amongst weasels

adders circle underfoot

feast upon beetles

lo, upon the yonder’s rise

climbing like steeples

bristled as a paddle brush

prickled like needles

of a morning’s wander on

oh, it’s those teasels

…

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splodge it & scarper ( repracs & ti egdolps )

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pluck a plum as if a lute
topple not saturnal crowns
flap away the fruits of may
blather nuts & gather nouns

up before a fall asleep
scrawling like a spider scribe
thinking like a kitchen sieve
live ‘n’ letters diatribe

when the hen’s a pecking pen
& the goblins gobble grapes
she’s a lizard lottery
mistress of the apes ‘n’ scrapes

i, the spillage idiom
riddle eight a choral clue
like a leaping salmon flies
brief is butter finger too

spilling bags of magic beans
dancing ants in pantomimes
turning topsy terpsichore
tossing ’til the wanker rhymes

see a sea of seven stars
strut a pheasant’s rusted gait
then the garden gargles green
giz a wave – & oscillate
…

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basho’s broken ribs ( sbir nekorb s’ohsab )

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shat, twat, bollocks, shit

tosser, bellend. wanker, dick

fuck, cunt, fucker, fuck

…

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fill in the … ( …eht ni llif )

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b adgers barking, hark

   but the pen’s a pencil case

   bugger all calling

l et there be spanners

   lemon scented letterheads

   light another tab

a nswer with antlers

   attack like helicopters

   arses in the air

n otice then the clocks

   nincompoop this interlude

   not stop ticking

k iss a magic kipper

   kick invisible tree stumps

   knight this greening night

s ight before vision

   scribbles on sabbaticals

   salmon swim sideways

…

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pppoooeeetttrrryyy ( yyyrrrttteeeoooppp )

…

pisspot platitudes
pennies from magonia
purple prose comas

odd sock odysseys
otters in your pocket watch
operatic owls

etch upon the mist
elemental excrement
echoes in hedgerows

type tripe titterings
trundle up the eiderdown
tonguing twisted toss

roar like a mouse mat
roundabouts & out again
row your floating boat

yet the yeti see
yesterday’s a paper plane
you fucking pilchard
…

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match sticks ( skcits hctam )

…

twin twigs

mirror sprigs

snap branches

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