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Wood Lane
From his high office An ace trader named Al Looked at the wet junction Where the paradise house one stood These were his asphalt memories. In his neon cabin A security guard named Chris Checked the lottery results He never bought a ticket But knew all his numbers He liked the pain. In the tangled […]
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Borderlands
From this tangled tangled skew you’ll find how a thread will wind and wind still if patient you remain it will come to shape again. This was a short poem by an anonymous poet discovered in an 1877 Children’s Treasury annual purchased in Marlborough in July 2011. I have added a title and made […]
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Dry Atlantis
When Alice, Alice and Alice travelled to the Redwater they always took the agile route past the soda stall Each had a Moroccan appearance even though they had been born on the Manchester Road morocco was their mothers favoured country They were all in fine health until the sixteenth of each month when they hovered […]
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Diary Veronika
The Ten Flags of New Zealand On a water tower in a moderate town flew the ten flags of my mothers land They vanished in a winters storm I did not replace them Theatre On a naked stage You asked me for my hand My acceptance answered your first prayer I await your second […]
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Kitty Brown
When we arrive at the zoo I will show you only brown animals We will travel on a brown boat Taken from a brown pier along a brown river As you drink yours unsweetened I will take only brown sugar in my tea We will wear brown clothes Which we will dry in our brown […]
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Immoral Tale
Immoral Tale When I swept the sea from your doorstep I found a fish which we shared that evening Immoral Tale (2) I went to the Bettina Poodle Café and ate a hearty meal it closed soon after my visit Immoral Tale (3) A small bird and I shared a milkshake we were aware of […]
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Biographies
Terry Super – Humorous committed suicide in front of an ICE train he always knew that he would die of the cold he married a co-joined twin and had an affair with her sister for this crime he was committed to prison island where he had a butterfly tattooed onto his chest within days it […]
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A Window of Many Colours
Your stories are glass thin that is all I require for I see eternity in the transparency of your colour
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A Prestatyn Dream
The girlfriends in their terracotta shoes danced as they avoided the comb tide. On the dunes the grasses dreamt but could not taste the fruits of the singing palms I told them that all journeys were imaginary They did not believe me As the evening invaded the day I returned and looking north I counted […]
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A Dandy on Vacation
We have arrived The thick air Now relaxed Has been replaced By a dancing breeze All roads now lead to the beach Attendance is compulsory