Nasty Little Collection
By mcmanaman
New poems (2010)
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They couldn't stop tickling each other
When they ate out they had one rule - they were not allowed to order for themselves
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A boy called Michael Jackson
People who have a famous name
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A go home moment
I didn't realise you were waving at someone else. I thought you were waving at me.'
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A hipflask
'Why do you always have a hipflask my friend Tom asks.
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A Hymn for the Cigarettes
no peer pressure or impressing bigger boys I just went to the hotel cigarette machine
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Ambition
Ambition is like a bumbling tourist guide you have no idea where it will take you.
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Chain of Hurt
I knew I was being pathetic. But sometimes people are pathetic.
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Cicatrice
It's like when you're in your study, reading
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Cleaning
'Your drinking has got out of control' my cleaner tells me
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Cloaks
You used to play with my feelings like a magician with three tumblers
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Good shoes
I spray paint my account number and sort code on the bridge by the railway station
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The city is different now
my legs are like newlyweds asleep in bed breathing in synchronicity
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There's something about the railway
the crackle of old radio the smell of a dusty book
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Red wine stains
You're probably wondering why the windows are smashed in. From inside and out.
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I saw my dead nan on the ghost train
I saw my dead nan on the ghost train she said this is a good ghost train isn't it.
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I never used to like whisky
I used to hate the taste of whisky if I was offered some I'd pause before I drank it like I was about to break bad news. As it trickled down I'd grimace
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Michael Owen's cheeky accumalator
you've been like Screech from Saved by the Bell unable to find a new role answering endless questions about Zac Morris and Mr Belding.
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I wish I believed in aliens
before I closed my curtains at night I'd check the sky for asteroids hurtling towards earth
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May God protect your home
one day I saw an ambulance and was so relieved the next day when you were out in the garden again a trowel in your hand
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Don't flake out on me
if me and you stick at it don't set our sights on unrealistic goals then we will both get our carriage clocks a handshake from the CEO
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Soya milk
'We better get some soya'
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I'm telling everyone I want Germany to win
I'm writing a poem a day about the World Cup. This is day 4, a response to Germany beating Australia. See all the poems at worldcuppoems.blogspot.com
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Punch up in the Rovers
and two hours later I opened the door to plumes of smoke a Victoria sponge
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The sestina sestina
A sestina, where instead of using 6 end words I use one. And it's 'sestina.'
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Lawnmowers
I know you said you had no garden tools.
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Post
Years later I moved I'd had enough of the city life the Nottinghamshire countryside beckoned.
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They couldn't stop tickling each other
They always read the same books, side by side in bed, turning pages simultaneously.
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The Japanese Restaurant
On my lunchbreak I walked past a Japanese restaurant and saw my friends sat at a table by the window.
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The first date
I tell her I am lonely, that I spend most of my time without any trousers on.
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I like to watch the fire engines
and the whole world is a single carriageway with cars indicating and pulling over
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Frozen
'Why me?' I asked waking 500 years in the future
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Talking to Camera
but every time you either stumble over your lines, a police car screeches past or someone creeps into the back of the shot
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Your children are fast asleep upstairs
Your chiropodist hasn't answered her phone all morning 'What can she be up to!'
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Pages from Ceefax
'We are being drip-fed by these life support machines'
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Tomorrow's World
'We're all going to wear jetpacks' we all said at school the next morning
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The unlucky shop
My love life is like the unlucky shop. Derelict most of the time and then suddenly a bakery.
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Remix
Wednesdays are like album tracks you want to skip past to get to Friday.
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I donated money anonymously
£5.80 to Haiti anonymously.
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Most people aren't that happy anyway
Most people are phoning work at 9.05, ‘I’ve overslept again. I’ll be there as soon as I can.’
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That money would have turned you into a bastard
Poem about this story http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6535813/EuroMill...
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Lily Allen Dream
'How's Lily?' people in the office would ask and I'd tell them the things we'd been up to.
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Orbital, Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.
He deals with problems the same way he deals with the dripping tap in the bathroom just puts on his music until he can't hear.
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I have fallen in love with someone beautiful
She is an illustrator of children's books obviously
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Missing Trains
I take a seat on a bench. It starts to rain. My pound is swallowed by the vending machine,
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No, no, no.
'I am in love with a girl called Kelly' I tell my tattooist but by now he knows that more than anyone.
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Flames
I was on top of a human pyramid motorcycle display team when she texted to say she was leaving me.
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Moving out
Anna says to help herself to lilies for her room
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