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The Pleasure Whistle & Other Poems
Dove Dyed grey and hidden in a sack you witnessed the full rawness of the war as you were carried innocently by my thirsty soldiers who were betrayed by their static love as you were AAG 1916 Medal Blood in the water Blood in the sea A medal for the general And fuck […]
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Emily Heath-Rough writes to Sallypoo
To Sallypoo sometimes alone, sometimes sad, always clever always funny, fabulously feline unique and a love Today I went into the village and purchased a sad old panda with one eye for Chester. I also purchased the latest work from Mr Huxley from the bookshop. The assistant informed me that it was the last copy […]
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Toriaga’s Dream
Blue, Blue, Yellow Squares Blue Toriaga always added these words to the title page of any of his collections of poems It was almost like an autograph Indeed he always signed his books as Blue, Blue, Yellow Squares Blue instead of his birth name He recommended to friends that they travel without clothes (as he did) […]
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Party House Lyrics
Alfredo Garcia was named after a movie that no one in his family had ever seen The family name was Garcia so Alfredo’s uncle suggested the name when Alfredo was born in 1987 Alfredo’s uncle had seen the movie with his cousin in a small cinema in Madrid in 1974 He admired Sam Peckinpah movies […]
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sixty nine short stories written in lower case without any grammatical consideration
eye had been sitting on the train for about ten minutes reading a book about the irish rebellion of seventeen ninety eight my book had been lavishly illustrated by george cruishank eye was studying in graphic detail an illustration of the murder of george crauford and his granddaughter when eye noticed the woman opposite me […]
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Anti-Carmen
Ani4ani4ani4ani4ani A mechanical digger is clearing up the remaining copies of USA I am standing on the corner of the street Watching the operation On the opposite corner is John Dos Passos He is sharing an ice cream With a girl in a green dress Today a man was executed in the USA The largest […]
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The Splendid Twins
In the Field of the Vapours The grasses grow to different heights The grass nearest to the railway line Is short and summer sparse Whereas the grass nearest The Road of Sensible Praise Is much taller and more lush From where I normally sit The differing length Of these grasses Distort my view of […]
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Marlborough 26th July 2014
Guns are booming over the town once more And men and women from the seventeenth century Patrol the streets and mingle with the Saturday shoppers War is never far away The chatter of the muskets does not disturb Mrs P As she cleans the brasses in the school chapel Watched by generations of long […]
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Margate – Elvis Enchanted
Inside the Victorian clock tower written in pencil on a beam can be found the following graffiti Nancy, Bob, Roger and me slept here in the July of 63 I found these words During my search for Elvis Who had been reported As being seen in the town Some years ago
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Westgate on Sea
The day was fading above the Reculver Towers into a milky panorama as it often did in mid-July Children were searching for unchartered seahorses in the orange rock pools exposed by the tide As their parents sat in front of the beach café and took tea from bone brittle china cups Tall girls in black […]