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July Wedding /The Planet that Sings
Today has been a musical day Full of the songs of sunshine A happy day like no other It is evening now The colours are fading But the perfumes remain You are sleeping in our new bed For the first time I am about to capture The night breezes In coloured bottles And will present them […]
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Gangster
My daughter is very beautiful But she attracts the wrong type The obsessives The mummy’s boys The collectors of beautiful things Normally I would have a word In their shell like And things would return to normal But Nick was persistent And began scaring Vikki He was something in the City And often flashed the cash I […]
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Gangster 2
This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere.’ – The bed replaces the ‘centre’ (the earth), the walls of the bedroom replace the crystal ‘sphere’ which in medieval cosmology (following the ideas of Ptolemy) surrounded the earth and carried around upon it the disc of the sun. Did your daughter ever wonder what happened […]
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Shoreline /One
It had been hot for a number of weeks I was in Folkestone Near the funicular railway Which was being being restored (the reason for my visit) An abridged cafe Had also survived (unlike the burnt tea) Which haunted me I was very happy As the light was perfect The spectacular Shoreline apartments (another reason […]
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Shoreline 2
Did I know the posh man and the pretty girl It was his daughter Nice frock I wish I was willowy like her What do you think of the apartments I have not really thought about it It is a bit blowy down here in the winter Would you like to live in one of the […]
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A Wisp of a Petticoat
That was all that they found in her room Along with a note that read A moment before a moment It has been over sixty years Since she disappeared Nobody has an explanation The strange thing is that her clock Never worked after she vanished It never advances beyond the twelfth hour
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Julia Bathes
When I was released from prison My father ordered me to stay In his Potiers house As I had brought shame on my family I reluctantly agreed to this isolation She was weeping Having been robbed By a couple of Arabs I took her back to the house To help her recover from the ordeal She […]
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After Julia
I travelled into the city Looking to find Julia’s assailants Knowing that I would never Be able to find them As they all looked alike I stopped at the Cafe Charles Martel As the day was mild And I had not eaten for hours Although I felt at peace with myself I felt an anger […]
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Joe Chats to Annie M
Where are you Joe In Ashland Virginia Josie is also in the US with her friends Sephine is in Finland We are scattered to the winds The sisters have returned to Greece Although Cora in returning quite soon Why Ashland you might ask That is easy as I like trains I have a friend named Cassie […]
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The Railway Rabbits
Hi Bonni what are you doing here You should be in the warm As it is icicles out here I am homeless Lezah But you had such a lovely hutch I was so jealous of you And so were many of the other rabbits What happened Do you remember the storm Which storm Storm Willam Nobody […]