Resistant Literature
By jonahs cough
A pick and mix of ideas from the back of my mind. (That's just a pretentious way of saying 'I dunno what on earth I'm writing').
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Angels write in poetry, Demons write in prose
As I lie beneath the blanket Of a heavy Devon sky That has breached its secret contract With the local weatherman And begun to bleed
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A Thief in the Country
They keep them hidden Within those rolling hills Their dirty little things That not even the hoarding Claws of Magpies will touch
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Apollo in his cottons
His imagination was crushed to a pulp, Between the pages of a GCSE maths book, And his eyes were dug out of his face, By lines and lines of twisting jargon,
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At Eternity's Gate
In a pool Of sweat and dark memories A lone swimmer Carves out lengths On the quivering surface
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Cigarette
It is the smell that takes you first, That gentle odour of dry tobacco, That whispers into the air And tiptoes into your nose,
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God grants sleep to those whom He loves
Crackle and whistle The springs of a bed
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Small pieces of England
I hold the pebbles in my hands, thinking of how, one day, I shall have just enough small, perfect pieces to make a whole England.
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