Semi-poetic attempts at becoming the Black Country bard
By The Walrus
My poems. If you can call then that.
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Homage To Chloe
Those lips were as red and bloody as the jaws of a tiger feasting on a fresh kill.....
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'Er 'Oo Sleeps With The Fishes
WORK IN PROGRESS - Experimental, Black Country slang. Comments please.....
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An Old Incantation
Is it so wrong to call from the abyss something that God deemed never to be?
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Apocalypse 2012
Then, I guess He'll wipe every last detail of our shoddy credentials off His chalk board in one fell swoop
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Appeasing The Jabberwock
It might have been brillig, but I'm not entirely sure of that word's etymology so I can't say for sure.....
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Gadzooks!
A very rude poem with a sad undercurrent.
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Jean And Sylvia On The Razzle
“As you know, love, my sister's worked in Tesco for years, and they don't 'ave 'alf the weirdos we 'ave in soddin' Boots.”
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Mandy
Racked with guilt and a tangle of abstract furies the monster said that he didn't want to hurt her, but he hurt her anyway. He said he couldn't help it.
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The Box
Don't open the box, or else.
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The Hunger
In this never-ending miasma of nobodies I am searching for a special someone, and not just anyone will do.
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Nameless
“I'm going now, Sarah-Jane, never to return,” I said blithely, waving like a fruit and nut case on a day trip from a hospital for the criminally inept.
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In The Park With An Old Love And A Toy Poodle
You can't cry any more, can you, Pink Piglet?
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Molecular Activity (The Twisty Woman Tryst)
Only a few non-random molecules of the big picture, the big, fat, juicy dream of you and I will stick in my mind, sugar lump.....
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The Waterhole
I need a jolt from your electrodes, I ache for a vivifying shock as much as a soft caress.
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My Dim Recall
the whys and wherefores of that devastatingly brutal rejection are lost in the mist of past lives lying one atop another like so many shed skins.
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Footbig And The Sad Saga Of Charlie Grapes
“Footbig?” I'm sure he would grumble if he could talk. “Too right - unfortunately such is my name, and I blame it all on a certain would-be comedian not a million miles away.”
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Serpent Kundalini
Besieged by an ever increasing heat the monster Eros (if that its real name) rears its ugly, deceitful head one last time
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The Waterwheel
If you like I can try to explain the subtle ins and outs of this particular branch of celestial mechanics, but I doubt if you'll believe me or even begin to comprehend.....
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The Weekly Shop
I growl malevolently at the brawling thugs around me, vultures and sewer rats and shit eaters all.
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Nameless
“I'm going now, Sarah-Jane, my love, never to return,” I said blithely.
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The Grin
She caught his eye as she admired the butterflies on the flowers that he squashed as he stepped out into the open.
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Upload, Unload
Plug in. Switch on. Boot up.
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You Ain't Kate Moss
You ain't Kate Moss.....
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Your Name Is Claire
Your name Is Claire, but you don't know that I know it.
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