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The Maiden’s Bush
How sweet you smell as you piss in this wood of bluebells But I am not fooled as I know that winter will soon be upon us and thou will not smell as sweet then attributed to Amos Derrikk (1566-1649)
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In Julia’s Eyes
Thou wishes me on a dungheap wrapped in silks belonging liquefying slowly attributed to Amos Derrikk (1566-1649)
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The Hills Became Cooler – (Travels in Wiltshire and Somerset)
Wiltshire Landscape hang clouds threading time leading hills breaking cover the night is near Bath Babel Bath Today I had to walk solo, lost in the incredible street music of the city. I recorded the visit on my humble camera as my rumble trace memories were beginning to fade Mondrian and […]
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e palestine
in a field of clutching buttercups lola cola wrote to edward patterson reminding him of his duty some distance away her lover counted the yellow flowers in blocks of ten at two minutes before three in the afternoon lola cola accepted a sarsaparilla from a passing magpie
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India Café
I met her on the Day of Psalms Selling tea to passing strangers As I sat on the café wall I thought of my childhood in India The tea seller had also been raised in India But unlike me did not take milk in her tea
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West Country Tales
Dry Chameleon On a street in Bristol I met a woman With a dry chameleon In her pocket It had not rained that day Taken Away by Carl In Exeter I met a man named Carl He removed the flowers From my summer fields And the clouds From the warm skies I was left […]
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In a Publik Place
The lazy star that hovers above the place Shows you seldom fair of face Do not let the cold maidens low of purse Include you rigid within their curse Thrust a sword though her rotten heart She begs you do my friend apart In 1823 a Miss Claire Clairmount was given […]
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The Three Diaries of Joanna the Mad
The three diaries of Joanna the Mad only came to light when my cleaner found them in an infant cupboard when searching for a cleaning agent They did not tell me much about the mad queen with the exception that she was not mad but a reverse poet She wrote a floral poem, Jogjakarta (now […]
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The Quiet Returns of Gregory Si
as recorded by his younger brother He was born in West Ham and lived in a high rise near the football ground His family originally came from Norfolk but moved to London in the nineteenth century for economic reasons as his father was a skilled fisherman Gregory Si was of average height and celebrated […]
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Rent Guide Number Three
Far Fetch Fulham I started my days as an anonymous tattoo on a celebrity arse and ended them as a much loved illustrated manuscript in the British Museum Loo Paper No 9 The loo paper we use has the number nine printed on it there is no reason for this Naturist Camping with […]