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sunday strolls

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sunday strolls  (  a  p o e m  )

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strolling passed them churches

catching bits of verses

carried as the wind blows

hymns beyond their windows


sermons, chapter-verses

preach to me these churches

every week they sing-so

( never tempt me in though )

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the many pitfalls ( of all )

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the many pitfalls ( of all )  (  a  p o e m  )

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all that glistens isn't gold

all that listens isn't told

all that shivers isn't cold

all that's striking isn't bold


all that's sweaty isn't hot

all that's tangled isn't knot

all that's polka isn't dot

all that's crikey isn't - what?


all that's podded isn't pea

all that's knobbly isn't knee

all that's leafy isn't tree

all that's stolen isn't free


all that's holy isn't saint

all that's distant isn't faint

all that's garden isn't quaint

all that's tartan isn't paint


all that's sinking isn't ship

all that's kiss me isn't quick

all that's carrot isn't stick

all that's parrot isn't sick


all that's throbbing isn't vein

all that's delayed isn't train

all that's pissing isn't rain

all that's missing isn't brain


all that's certain isn't fact

all that's tit for isn't tat

all that wobbles isn't fat

all that bobbles isn't hat


all that's roman isn't nose

all that's jammy isn't toes

keep wary - never suppose

all varies - go with them flows

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the fly indoors

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the fly indoors  (  a  t r u e  s t o r y  )

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the fly indoors remains indoors

from room to room, from floor to floor

it bumbles on throughout this house

outside the world waits - unexplored


the window's smashed so you could go

to paris, hull or tokyo

i tell said fly - i need not lie

follow that breeze which sweetly blows


instead there's buzz & buzz again

as all is buzz-buzz in my brain

plus buzz & buzz & buzz & buzz

plus buzz, plus buzz - it's been decades


or so things seem, once more i groan

then cry - oh fly, please leave this home

or i'll make soup then thou may drown

oh fuck off fly - leave me

alone

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yellow roses

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yellow roses  (  a  p o e t r y  )

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drenched moses

those crows with hoses

bend them rules

& smoke osmosis

sagely sneeze

& blow some gnosis

late is may

summer approaches


hip yon jigs

entranced - hypnosis

live fact-free

don't diagnosis

trust what is

sniff whiffs & notice

place your faith

in yellow roses

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