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For poems that didn't make the cut into the new collection.Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-28055311693455216412016-04-20T04:02:00.004-07:002016-04-20T04:02:56.561-07:00Scaffolding on the Bodhisattva
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Some pointing is always necessary</div>
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Above a scaffold made from the </div>
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Wood of a banyan tree.</div>
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Workmen whistle a tenfold
harmony,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Karma readjusts its garments</div>
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In a Cross legged refurbishment.</div>
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The benign smile bricked up</div>
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And strengthened with struts,</div>
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Contemplation of the navel</div>
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By plasterers and labourers.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-67802191967376673902016-04-20T04:02:00.002-07:002016-04-20T04:02:10.877-07:00The Consequences of Dust
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<b>The Consequences of Dust</b></div>
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Because it gathers</div>
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I cannot be without you.</div>
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As I am heading towards</div>
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A dustbowl</div>
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Like Woody Guthrie.</div>
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I am wrapped around you.</div>
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Though it may</div>
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Not be in my best interests</div>
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I am unable to deny the</div>
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Consequences.</div>
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I hoover up feelings</div>
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Empty the bag</div>
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Occasionally.</div>
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It can’t be stopped</div>
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Because it gains momentum.</div>
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I am ready.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-23689533414727593792016-04-20T04:01:00.001-07:002016-04-20T04:01:35.880-07:00The Animal that Prays
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">The Animal that Prays</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I am the
animal that prays</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">With one heart
lilting in the dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">And loved by
water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Born to rule
the brute</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">By law on many
togues</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Blind about
the altar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I am the
animal that prays</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">With one heart
pure in the light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">And saved by
water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Bred to kill
the beast</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">By Christ on
many tongues,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Blood bibles
the hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I am the
animal that prays.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-80518570810092800822016-04-20T04:00:00.001-07:002016-04-20T04:00:42.180-07:00The Last Poem
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Last Poem</b></div>
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He assembled the usual confectionary</div>
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Tasted the sharp and bitter, lined them up</div>
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In rows and sprinkled the sugar that</div>
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Constitutes thought over their making.</div>
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Nothing would come of any of this</div>
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The number of candied scenarios</div>
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Piled in the recesses of books</div>
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Sticking to paper like toffee</div>
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And leaving indelible</div>
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Scripture on skin </div>
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Smudged tattoos </div>
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After years of needles.</div>
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Under loved and over rated</div>
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The nights and days jostled</div>
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Like children in queues</div>
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For the final piece of fudge.</div>
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a boiling pan of jam</div>
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Blistered and foamed</div>
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On a stove that rusted</div>
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Under flames.</div>
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This was the last making</div>
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And the last scent of his stink</div>
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Overdosing on the sugar</div>
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That had made nut brittle of his life</div>
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And made his reputation </div>
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The shiny wrappers</div>
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In the bins of the world.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-35824626177752805832016-04-20T03:59:00.001-07:002016-04-20T03:59:44.192-07:00Twenty five ewes and an eye
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You will remember we once had a cat</div>
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You had nothing to do with its passing</div>
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You have always kept your nails from dirt</div>
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You see the new sunrise and drink coffee</div>
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You fail to supply any of my needs or demands</div>
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You work without happiness and live without books</div>
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You don’t count the times you have hurt me</div>
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You are making food again without joy</div>
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You lie beside me like a cat</div>
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You will remember we once had a cat</div>
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You will remember how it ceased to be</div>
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You are as distant as you want to be.</div>
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You are in love with someone else</div>
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You worry when the dawn is less than beautiful</div>
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You give me books and their endless words</div>
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You never answer my questions with words</div>
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You touch my soul but never my body</div>
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You will not hear me crying in the night</div>
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You must sing when you are happy, do you?</div>
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You are the only one I would give me to</div>
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You are sleeping in another city</div>
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You have secrets that you do not tell</div>
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You are unrequited as you will always remain</div>
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You are walking alone, somewhere, smiling.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-39808107951442438312016-04-20T03:58:00.003-07:002016-04-20T03:58:44.634-07:00Zeus at Easter
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I won’t say
I’m bitter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I’m more
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Why no
chocolate thunderbolts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">or swan shaped
cakes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">A </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">piñata</span><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";"> in the shape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">of a bull or
an eagle. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Decorative
bonsai oak?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">It could be a
cool festival man,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">But not a card
from Aphrodite;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Apollo, Hercules,
any of my kids,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Going to spend
the day cloud gathering</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">disguising
myself as a variety of animals,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">same old, same
old,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">May take Hera
out </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">for a spot of
lunch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">if she ever
stops talking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">to Echo.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-26300040677114648592016-04-20T03:58:00.001-07:002016-04-20T03:58:04.295-07:00Requiem for the Unresolved
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You could just take down the stars</div>
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one by one, I won’t stop you,</div>
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Offer you advice or consolation</div>
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to help or if you fail.</div>
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You could just lasso the moon</div>
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your rope is hope, I won’t tell you</div>
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what I think or stand in your way.</div>
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You could just forget about me</div>
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Oh wait! you did that.</div>
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you could help me forget about you.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-3408201885506597662016-04-20T03:57:00.002-07:002016-04-20T03:57:10.870-07:00This is the Best Kept Secret
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">This is the
best kept secret</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">For you will
never know, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Of aching in
empty beds without you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Of the future
that does not lie before us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">By stealth I
will not see you;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">A camouflage
of happiness to be near you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">A conspiracy
of words to hush my body language,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Cloak and
daggered in the car inches away from touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">For we will
never be as god’s spies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">My chicken
hearted espionage will not allow it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I comfort
myself with discreet contact in public places,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Ache for the
private places you share with another.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-5429420474321445992016-04-20T03:56:00.002-07:002016-04-20T03:56:29.462-07:00The Shape of Dalek Desire
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I don’t desire much,</div>
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Universal domination, subservience</div>
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of all living creatures, the total annihilation</div>
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of all time lords especially the doctor.</div>
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not much to ask.</div>
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a bungalow in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Holland</st1:city></st1:place>,
(nice and flat.)</div>
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a parking space at the BBC</div>
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did I mention the total annihilation of </div>
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all time lords especially the doctor?</div>
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I don’t desire much.</div>
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Davros’ autograph.</div>
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Gender assignment.</div>
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it’s not much fun being genderless you know.</div>
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No Dalek Porn !</div>
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Impossible to do much with a sink plunger anyway.</div>
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No wi-fi or Netflix in this tin can.</div>
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No holidays or picnics on the beach,</div>
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No dancing</div>
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Not a chance of just once,</div>
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just once, actually being in a plot</div>
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where I get to exterminate the lot of you.</div>
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Not much to ask.</div>
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Did I mention the total annihilation</div>
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of all time lords especially the Doctor?</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-69289599292578030732016-04-20T03:55:00.001-07:002016-04-20T03:55:50.137-07:00The Life of Wood
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">The Life of Wood</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Ratchet backed
easel,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Starter
handled .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Made of school
days</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">and homework.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Pre war spined</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">from machined</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">severed
branches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Bone squared,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the arithmetic
of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">woodwork
classes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Measured from
the hip,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">ornate walking
stick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">to step on
ash, over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">the parapet of
art.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Cousin chair
sits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">in a silent
corner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">dumb as
logarithms.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-82950284502662523132016-04-20T03:54:00.001-07:002016-04-20T03:54:20.257-07:00Storm in a Teacup
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Storm in a teacup</b></div>
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That gift you brought me,</div>
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A cloud in a bottle, disturbs me.</div>
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It stands on the bedroom window sill</div>
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Pining for sky. I hum lullabies to it</div>
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Feed it rain and blue, </div>
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whisper soft</div>
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Cumulus words</div>
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But it merely becomes overcast</div>
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And weeps.</div>
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If it’s weather doesn’t improve</div>
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I think it might die.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Is it right to imprison clouds?</div>
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Should they be free?</div>
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Am I being over sensitive?</div>
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<br /></div>
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Lately it has become elegiac</div>
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It sings melancholy folk songs</div>
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In its cotton wool type voice.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I’ll set it free, shall I?</div>
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<br /></div>
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What if it stays? Hangs gloomily</div>
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Around the house, leaving little wet</div>
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Shower marks on the axminster,</div>
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What if it turns nasty?</div>
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Thunder in the lavatory</div>
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And storms in the teacups?</div>
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<br /></div>
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I’ll set it free, it’s for the best.</div>
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I’ll buy a plastic cloud from the supermarket</div>
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One with a free fift or a coupon off for money back</div>
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One with a lifetime guarantee.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-6087479323800595932016-04-20T03:53:00.001-07:002016-04-20T03:53:15.476-07:00Rook
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rook</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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we seek to cover the sun today</div>
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wreak havoc in thermals rising,</div>
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we are rook and you are not,</div>
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we choose the shadow under our wings.</div>
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<br /></div>
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we are gathering under a harvest moon</div>
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we break the back of bird song, </div>
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our barks bite deeper than the black crake, </div>
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our brotherhood mobs the eagle and the gods.</div>
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<br /></div>
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you are not fit to share our carrion,</div>
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our black thorn crowns of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>lofty nests,</div>
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our beaded eyes as bright as elderberry,</div>
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our ragged squadrons draped in night.</div>
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<br /></div>
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we seek to outnumber the daybreak</div>
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clatter it to earth with choral empires,</div>
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the book of rook is written in the leaves</div>
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and cannot be undone by gull or crow.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-9802888212162734862016-04-20T03:52:00.002-07:002016-04-20T03:52:20.083-07:00Northern Rain Mask
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Northern Rain Mask</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">(for and after Gerard Rudolf)</span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Remember the
first time I laid eyes on you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Another cold
afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">You turning in
widening circles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">in that train
station in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Edinburgh</st1:city></st1:place>.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Were you
wearing black<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Pashmina</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">for a funeral?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Were my first
words to you about weather?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Something
mundane at least.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Did you say, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">You are very tall?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Did I reply, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I lie about my height.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Did I fall in
love with you there and then?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">In all our
brutal years together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">we left each
other nailed to walls;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">gutted in so
many houses, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">disembowelled
by sex.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I am sorry,
for my part at least.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Your cruelty
is your business.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">We made so
much rain between us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">with not so
much as a tribal mask.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I am drinking
latte in the place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">where we first
made plans </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">near your ex
boyfriend’s flat.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">Rain runs down
the window.,</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype";">I am reading,
‘Orphaned Latitudes’.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-15206916996792852042016-04-20T03:50:00.002-07:002016-04-20T03:50:59.946-07:00Some other poems from 'Making Buildings out of Gods and Glue'
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If Love is Only</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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If love is only a box of chocolates</div>
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It will be gone before you finish this poem.</div>
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If love is only a bunch of flowers</div>
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It will be rotting in a wheelie bin inside a month.</div>
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If love is a big red heart full of clichés on a card</div>
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Then it will mean less and less as it is repeated every
year.</div>
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If love is only these things then it doesn’t exist.</div>
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<br /></div>
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But if love is a tangible thing</div>
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Measured by how we cherish each other</div>
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By how we put someone else before ourselves</div>
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By how we choose to keep someone in our thoughts</div>
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Then perhaps it is more of a long term investment</div>
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More of an unconditional thing, a natural human thing.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I will buy you the card, the flowers, the chocolates</div>
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The material things that don’t prove a thing.</div>
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But say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love you</i>
without advertising prompts</div>
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And expect your love to be as tangible as mine</div>
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And as obvious to the world as a red ribbon</div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
bowed around a manufactured plastic rose.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-20443660074448207622013-10-23T04:20:00.002-07:002013-10-23T04:20:54.120-07:00Four Poems<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Howling<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Something feral,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Not quite wild</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Passes between us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We tear each moment</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Apart</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A casual slaughter</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
An indifferent passion.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Consequences<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We pack away</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The board game</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That was given to us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Play, in secret another game</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The one where </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Consequences</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Are not imagined.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The one where</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The rules are lost</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Or are reinvented</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
At every move.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Holy<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If desire is holy</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We are a shrine</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If sex is god</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We are a trinity</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If lust is a religion</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then it is an old one</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If sin is real</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We are done for.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Quilt<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
On that quilt</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We refused to be quaint</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Under it</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We refused to be uncovered</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Over it;</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hanged stars,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Drawn constellations,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Quartered moon.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Passion<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Passion in many forms</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We are idle as engines</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Revving the counter</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
At amber</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
When red arrives</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We fly</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Tyres smoking</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Guiltily</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But always behind us.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Bus Stop<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
This bus stop</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Is a metaphor,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For you going away from me</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I check the timetable</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For when you will return.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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If you do not like this metaphor</div>
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There will be another one along shortly.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-22000363399921187772013-10-21T02:49:00.002-07:002013-10-21T02:49:26.568-07:00The Whitman/Hopkins Mash Up<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">As king fishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">late of a winter night--And I unremark'd seated in a corner;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">When the air was sweet-and-sour of the flown fineflower<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">what I said to you in the open air I</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="background: white;">resume:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I know I am restless, and make others so;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">I have desired to go</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Where springs not fail,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And a few lilies blow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding;</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading
away.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">And more must, in yet longer light's delay.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">With witness I speak this. But where I say<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Thou that on sin's wages starvest,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Behold we have the joy in harvest:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">pondering the themes thou</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="background: white;">lovest best.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Night, sleep, and the stars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards?</span></div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-63063739169667640592013-10-21T02:48:00.002-07:002013-10-21T02:48:05.857-07:00Why not be an Academic?<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Why not be an
Academic?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">after Steve Urwin<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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Crudites</div>
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The caterer’s choice</div>
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Chilled</div>
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For crunchiness.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Just enough time</div>
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To snack</div>
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Before</div>
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We jangle</div>
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<st1:state w:st="on">Champagne</st1:state>
flutes.</div>
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<br /></div>
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A good guide for life</div>
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Split down the middle</div>
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Of class,</div>
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Lying to the gods and </div>
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The gallery.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Run a course at uni</div>
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Make each half writer whole</div>
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The bare essentials</div>
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Of arts council, nepotism</div>
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And salary.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Pearls from swine fever</div>
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We patronise the word</div>
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Be an academic</div>
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Live this shit.</div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-31876949242594928872013-10-21T02:47:00.001-07:002013-10-21T02:47:30.248-07:00 Μια ζωή π<div class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Looking for something
constantly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Turns life into a formula for
death,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Which approaches in its usual
shape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I cannot figure you out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Because you do not wish me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">To understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Everyone is empty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Some emptiness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Is fillable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-36065754302160840202013-10-21T02:44:00.002-07:002013-10-21T02:44:43.626-07:00Typos from the opening lines of famous novels.<div class="MsoNormal">
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel
Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took
him to discover lice.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the cocks were
striking thirteen.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Stately, plump fuck Mulligan came from the stairhead,
bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed</div>
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<br /></div>
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Miss Brooke had that kind of booty which seems to be thrown
into relief by poor dress.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The old passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring
frogs revealed an arm stretched out on the hills, resting.</div>
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<br /></div>
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"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta mumbling
from the heavens, "first you have to hide.</div>
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<br /></div>
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He was an old man who pished alone in a skiff in the <st1:place w:st="on">Gulf Stream</st1:place> and he had gone eighty-four days now without
taking a pish.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a life.</div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
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It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is error.</div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-7449266365204113052013-10-21T02:42:00.003-07:002013-10-21T02:42:34.898-07:00Shattered Specular Reflection.<div class="MsoNormal">
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<br /></div>
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Imagine a mirror</div>
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Look into it and</div>
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Try to see yourself.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>It isn’t quite you ,
is it?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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An approximation</div>
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Of what you believe yourself to be.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Take a second mirror</div>
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To reverse the first’s reversal.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Is it more or less
like you?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Do two lies make a
truth?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Does twice removed<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Make things nearer?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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Break the mirror</div>
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And reassemble</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Your reflection.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i>There that’s better<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Now do you recognise</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Your true self?</div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-51014818321095481352013-10-21T02:40:00.002-07:002013-10-21T02:40:27.599-07:00Oneirology <div class="MsoNormal">
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Don’t write about dreams</div>
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Unless you’ve got something else to say.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Don’t contemplate them, you will slip</div>
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Into cliché as easily and obviously</div>
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as clouds being fluffy or as night being dark.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Ignore them and their glib psychology</div>
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Freud used to dream about sex</div>
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Before it was Freudian to do so.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Denounce them as being what they are; mind herpes,</div>
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Involuntary ramblings or at best pleasant diversions.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Don’t encourage them to breed.</div>
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They are as pointless to take seriously </div>
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as astrology is to astronomy.</div>
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<br /></div>
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View them as you might view gossip columns</div>
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Interpret them in the same way, with cynicism</div>
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And if you don’t know yourself by now</div>
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Ask someone who does.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Don’t write about dreams</div>
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They will trick you into believing</div>
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You are important, when you really know</div>
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You are not, otherwise why dream at all?</div>
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<br /></div>
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You can’t escape or find safe passage through</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Life by dreaming, dreams are like cotton wool</div>
<br />
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Good for soaking up stuff but useless after that.</div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-2909716990144666382013-10-21T02:39:00.003-07:002013-10-21T02:39:31.637-07:00Love in a Minor Key<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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If I had a piano</div>
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All the songs I wrote about you</div>
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Would be played in minor keys.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Which is strange considering</div>
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How happy you can make me,</div>
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But not strange </div>
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When I know your passion</div>
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Is split between minor and</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Major chords.</div>
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<br /></div>
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If I wrote poems about us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They would be elegies.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
They all are.</div>
<br />
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<br /></div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-30099367998283202352013-10-21T02:38:00.000-07:002013-10-21T02:38:15.147-07:004 Poems<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Plant<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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She is thistles</div>
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A burr.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I am soft,</div>
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Not really a rose.</div>
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<br /></div>
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We grow</div>
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Alongside.</div>
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<br /></div>
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In different</div>
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Seasons.</div>
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<br /></div>
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The moon</div>
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Feeds us stories</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
When the sun is asleep.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Not Lovely<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I am not lovely.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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She can tell me I am.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I take it from her.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Like water.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It is essential</div>
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<br /></div>
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That she sees me</div>
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<br /></div>
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As something other</div>
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<br /></div>
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Than ordinary</div>
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<br /></div>
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Some call this love.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Parchment<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
My skin stains</div>
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Under heat</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Turns sepia</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I have written</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The words for a novel</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And feel them</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
When he is not here</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
She is mine</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I write her on my face</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So that the secret is known</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
She makes silence</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For us to remember.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Text<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Shorter words</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Code even</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Etherised</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
T O U</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Flying between</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Screens</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
We pretend</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
To be apart</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Tear all</div>
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The words</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That bind us</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I want her</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
To be brave.</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-39727397394573246422013-10-21T02:36:00.000-07:002013-10-21T02:36:10.942-07:00Happiness is banal<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Happiness is banal</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I live my life at a quarter to midnight</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I turn over the page to another sunset</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And rip the colours out of the sky.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I walk the street as it fills with ink</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Stealing lines for poems to scratch</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Onto my skin.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
open up the darkest wound</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
To empty you from me.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Happiness is just something</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Fools conjure when they</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Can’t find the exit.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Yet I have found the exit</div>
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But cowardice won’t let me pass.</div>
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I gather the shadows of wraiths,</div>
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Wear them as scarves,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Their violin screeches</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Nails down a coffin.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I live my life at a quarter to midnight</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Happiness is banal.</div>
Cadwallenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16622359319843533529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7083086466915984661.post-2979204935662477502013-10-21T02:31:00.004-07:002013-10-21T02:31:56.251-07:002 Baz poems<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Baz and the
Impersonal Theory<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>My fist is just a
vessel<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Through which my anger passes<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>But is untouched by
it.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
What like T.S.Eliot?, I ask.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Didn’t he write<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>That musical ‘Cats?’<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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He replies.</div>
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Well yes…or at least…</div>
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<i>So did he not like
cats?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Well yes… I guess so</div>
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<i>A bit anthropomorphic…Cats…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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He raises a quizzical eyebrow</div>
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Which indicates he is very proud</div>
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That he has used that word.</div>
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A bit, I hesitantly reply</div>
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<i>Especially Elaine
Paige.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Baz pulls up the golden bough </div>
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and uses it as a back scratcher.</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Baz
and the Seventh Doctor<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">In
the toilet of the bar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">That
used to be a mosque<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Next
to the Theatre that used<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">To
be good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">The
actor that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Used
to be the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Seventh
doctor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Taking
a piss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">After
taking the piss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">In
a farce on a stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">And
Baz gleefully<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Returning
to his seat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">After
the briefest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">Of
exchanges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">What
did you say to him?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">We
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">I
asked him about <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Time
and Relative dimensions<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Garamond;">He
smirked,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">I
always thought the Doctor’s penis<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">Would
be bigger on the inside than out<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Garamond;">But
that has proved to be a phallacy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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