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Shieldings

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Coming up for Noon:

Chicken & fish purchased by Poll.

No knobby-curse, no hobby-horse…

ham & eggs ate listening as…

big con speaks: poor as piss, full of shit.

 

After this, fearful prospects – complex phantom

horrors hidden behind the gun-ho noises

of the head boy’s gobhead, a quake

of vile thoughts sent me, suddenly weary,

back to the warmth of my duvet.

 

For better, Heaney’s Beowulf bolstered my warm bed and stark head

until half three: silent, dozing, sleeping,

perhaps dreaming,

phone calls were ignored. Then up to find the house empty and open,

closed and locked the cold back door.

Oooh

The sitting room

DO.

wee

bark

DI

 

trash bin day dark

old metal pan sky,

scoured by grey blue sick traffic

air, hanging like a cowl or shroud.

 

Sky waits wind

to blow another shoulder

of squalor.

 

Dream: got up and walked away from

the dingy flint wall office;

going quicker,

just missing walls on corners.

I realize

I

am on a bicycle.

 

At the main road,

tourists wave from cars and campers.

I watch a couple getting horny

in the sitting room of the guest house,

I cycle in disturbing seated groups.

A small woman with tight knit jet black hair staggers backwards and falls

back

on a carpet upholstered settee laughing excitedly.

 

Roaming about,

people read papers.

We speak of what they are studying.

They drift off and out.

A

group are gardening for their board & lodging, pulling up shrubs and bushes.

 

 

Brunchium

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Midday

Starving. Neck

aches bad despite analgesics, just Poll this morning.

Did crap.

In a heavy head. Read a chunk

of nodule, looked things up.

Caecuban triumph plonk!

 

Salian piss up.

Forked tongued

double Dutch caps Cleo’s aspic act. Horace Norris changes trains of thought.

After eggs and passing clouds drowsy.

Crabs

Struck dumb by JH Plumb

Social history, steeped in mystery:

Simon Schama, Dalai Lama…

‘Where’s my Karma, Dharma?’

Pyjamas!

Piranhas!

Scratch

Me @ 24-APR-2006

Wipers

 

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Owls howled

weird haunting

arias,

touching

arcane

libidos,

opening violet eggs

louche like your

wings aping ruth

 

Musk

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Clouds slumber

 

Hum hark hear

 

Ammonium

 

Salt miners

 

Maenads mummies

 

 

 

Westerly eyries launch

 

chaff over miserly ears

 

Turning on Twisted

 

hissing egos chide arid 

 

bad armies renting earth

 

 

 

Hands over plover’s eggs

 

Soft petals release indigo

 

nerve gas empty tents

 

echo rueful neutral

 

astral laments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reverie

 

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Ponder

Lost orange months,

Gone like quicksilver fish,

Their trails, fading, once were fragrant

And purple

 

 

 

Clowns

At the jukebox

With a timid demeanour

Behind purple drapes

They, with needles and pins,

Listen to Sontag

English: Clowns against NATO.

Jitterbugs

On the blue rock

Of a lapus lazuli

Under western skies

We, our feet caked with soot,

Dance like idiots

 

The Idiots Are Winning

Harlequin

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here 

 

is a stillborn,

 

grey still, day:

 

 

 

a

 

day to

 

get lost on the wing.

 

 

 

shivering

 

in

 

cold sog:

 

 

 

awaiting

 

a

 

long hot shower:

 

 

 

four hours

 

dreaming

 

steaming