Grimbeau

Scroodles

Category: flash fiction

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light shows up

(quarter to five, half-moon)

Last week it blocked the sun.

Look at it now – pathetique

so they say: they say a lot.

Hector, lecture, subliminate

like snicks, little nicks, chance contacts

Ooshhzzschsss,uhurghiss:

grass blade cuts

wince you sizzle

Pursed lemon juiceface

Sharp Vinegar does  it too.

Oh! Don’t…cruel to be

Sometimes just pain spit then you get it.

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Especially hardbacks

Sharper guillotines

They say a lot. They say a lot.

Cutting things. who’s next?

that’s the rub, there you are,

Likens to one big tombola

Well random spinning

tube trap door

pink scrumbled chitties churned

Just reach in

bobs your uncle bob.

Hands knees &

Booms a daisy.

Silly really.

Hissziss…

Eavesdroppings

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capitalism

twenty four seven racket

rancorous fledglings

Faulk

faulk

 

all that water

under the bridge

avoiding

the swim

you cannot

bathe in

the same river

once

 

Roadhouse Chic

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Midnight:

The Noasis Lounge

Steel water side

Mercury safe

Clandestine

Legumes

Smoke

 

Slow vermillion

endoplasm

Indigo

moonlit spook

glides homeless

rest rooms

weeping

stones

Spoonless in Sparta

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Where was the spoon?

The Spoon – the fucking spoon!

Water was running,

Loud and constant

running water

You left the fucking tap on!

He could just make out the familiar, nasal tone.

My eyelash is awash with milk suds

Not quite a froth

Clambering from the cereal bowl

Was arduous hard

Like pond weed

And gypsy tart

Cassandra’s Idiot Brother

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A new thousand Fear Reich.

Open vista #9 – Closed for reparations.

Glass Onion luminaries stare at ship’s decanter:

Sense data, Alma Mater,

Seed potato incinerator:

Sub-geranium angstrom tunes.

New era music:

Jerry Lee Lewis…

 

When Epidurals take Stock

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Stumbled, hugged, slurped,

puffed the grizzly, mizzly

still born grim morn

 

Away with the furies,

the septic harpies,

the skivvying puggled blurb,

 

the chivvying, nagging

behemoth of claptrap and piffle

squatting in my gnomic canyon.

 

The limescale crumbles line the mug

The unicorn dismantles the cradle

The dish does away with the spoon.

 

Everyone chips in when

Push comes to shove

At the heel of the hunt

Hermes the Scraps

 

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The wind

Picks up a pace,

carrier bags, paper cups ,

crisp packets, true rumours,

sweet wrappers, where you left off, very light aircraft…

All manner of stuff really

The Hidden Perils of the Shallows

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once while  drowning

sheepishly

in the Black Sea

a big black boat

snook up and jumped

me from behind

 

after some time I

pulled what of me

was left together

tucked it up safe in

screeds of belly lard.

 

a rescue party

arrived and asked

me if I’d seen me.

I said a curt yet

polite no and

crawled back ashore.

 

Agarophilia

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Pomes is

Commoditties

 

Vacuum packed starshells

Beside the brassica

 

Liquid cheese fajitas

Above the pistachios

 

Something for the weekend

 

The Poet

A mere commode…

 

So go to

work on a leg,

or,

better still,

two.

 

Plumb

the crumbliest,

Flakiest

confection

in the world

 

it does what

it says

on the tin:

 

Authentic

Teak

Finish

 

Go on,

Try it!

 

Yes, you can

 

If you like

Ike

& Tina

Tuna Chunks