Style vs Substance
Some poems and some attempts at poetry.
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Night Music
And our song begins to call out In soft minor keys Tonight children will die! Tonight children will die!
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Animal
And the bones of it: The skeleton remains forever Fleshed out by living memory.
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Callous Parallels
Done some editing...still not too sure...
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Celebration
They are celebrating a murder whooping and cheering like New Year’s or the Champions League like fresh death takes the sting out, makes old death softer, somehow sweeter
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Name
Embellish his name clean it polish it shine it up just a little bit please reach down pull it from the mud- isn't that the kindest thing a person could do? say something
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Untitled
It's going to take more than a bloody bunch of grapes you say you care though. They will sit there going yellow. Neon fat with sugar. Bursting their skins flirting with fruit flies. Sweet
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Twenty Million Five Hundred Eleven Thousand One Hundred Forty-nine
One thousand five hundred and twenty nine products to clean your sink Five thousand, two hundred and seven brands of toothpaste I am not satisfied.
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Discretion
Your secrets, your confessions are dark crystals slipping quietly into my ocean
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Go Gently
What do you see, a feeble figure? Urinating in the bed Brittle ribs fractured by resuscitation. Plastic and alien, all tubes and beeping.
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Maintaining Excellence in Credit User Services (MECUS House Longterm Facility)
We are here because we are naughty. We are here to make good. Georgie went and shacked up with her man. But oh dear. Didn't do her Change of Circumstances did she?
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Maria
Maria She was born in a Mexican prison Nestled at the breast, her mother cursing cockroaches in the dark. She was taken and raised by the nuns in the convent courtyard she closed her eyes,
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Resonance
For jarring fascinating minutes. It was in my ribs. Your voice, the bench, my bones.
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The Chauncellor
He's round the back smoking crack with underage girls Writing heartache manifestos we'll roll up our sleeves and say “bloody” smiling on production lines holding up his little red box.
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