Grimbeau

Scroodles

Tag: writing

Stranger on a Train

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I do not fit in with anything today

just passing through with as little fuss,

the bare minimum. Today is not

a day dodging knives and barbs,

rolling under punches,

taking issue large and small,

crucial and otiose

 

No, today I shall be a rough sketch moving,

a fleshed out notion, a shadow of a familiar

I cannot be bothered to recall.

See, it works – I tried to recall.

It is good to talk when no one’s listening,

just pretending, no revealed or hidden agendas,

no issues to take account of. Hassle free.

 

 

Wrecking Ball

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After the ball bounce

Ricochets back between eyes

Reeling in the ears

Stumbling, rumbling, thundering

Tenements lack confidence

Disorientated

 

Blitzed, razed,

Untenable

Ruins

Sigh out Loud

 

The urge to destroy is a

Creative Fiction

Born of turbulence

&

Friction

 

Dereliction of solemn

Duty.

Developers pursuing

Booty

 

 

Meat is Murderous

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Goat’s eye moon subsides

Ruthless Heck cows run amok

Von Stroheim goes ape

The Compleat Works of Grimbeau

John Boohan of Kilbeggan

 

#1

What kind of fuel are you?

Wind, she replied,

What about you?

Paper

 

#2

 

When do they beguine

The beguine?

After the

#3

The night had

A thousand

Eyes

Ouch!

Nine hundred and ninety-nine

 

#4

Nights in White Satin:

Freezin’

 

#5

Young and green

Only seventeen

okra

 

#6

Who let the dogs out?

Who let them

in?

 

#7

And now

The end

Is

Here

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

 

 

 

 

Mod-Posternism

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‘All the best poets are in advertising’

i heard a flanneur say

so i put him in the compost

and I’ll bury him in May

 

Jaded Phalange

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Four in the morning;

radio off.

Silent sleep till…

Listful, churning daybreak

 

Nina ticks the boxes: arms,

Legs, eyes, souls all present

Incorrect but nonetheless…

 

Moon waiting, peeved, tapping

On the hollow roof, leaning on stack

And ridge tiles like a lazy bailiff

 

Time for mass critical

Time to bind leviathan

With mistletoe and

Gossamer cupidity

Pianissimo

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Dark

 

It’s

Curtains:

 

Ambergris

Smattered lovingly

In rugged tapioca.

 

Curtains

Its

 

Bark

 

 

Opening Contraband to Steam Radio

Icky

scatty playful stuff

re-upholstered  Chesterfield

smell of damp camphor

we gathered round to listen

to desert island dusk’s waves

Memo to Nature

images

Should weeping willows

transgress their quota of woe

overlook red tape