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Continue reading →: Lose the syrupEvery time you see me wince, When your toupee misshapes, How long must I endure, Your less than subtle skull capes How it flops and furls around your head When you get up to dance, How it holds the general public In a static gaping trance How I hate, how…
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Continue reading →: Trolling
For every keyboard warrior There’s a method to defeat, It’s hold control, F U and Delete
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Continue reading →: Beach
A million grains whip on the breeze to smash in your shin skin, a thousand more mingle and eventually line your sandwich tin, How this beasted beach Ingrains itself, swallowed down like A crunching memory, to be Carried inland and away from sun filled days and scoured sunburnt toes, wriggling…
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Continue reading →: Poem – Memories of youThis was one of the first poems that I had published in The Chamber magazine earlier this year. You are a wallet photo, unseen, Dusty atoms of carbon, Clinging to the plastic strand of a hand brush, Returned to its place after all was undone beneath the sinks You remained,…
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