tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31233364349649236102024-03-19T11:45:31.708+00:00Kick Over The WallPaul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.comBlogger543125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-59572098343331754112014-09-07T00:20:00.001+01:002014-09-07T00:20:42.738+01:00Hyena<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What the hyena cannot kill it shall steal<br />Tallied on the glass walls of our toil<br />Their bounty cultivated from the nothing we now possess<br />And the bodies which must fall once the winter bites<br />We must become as lions that rise and grip the throat of this thieving class</span>Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-8021840409764523822014-04-27T13:14:00.003+01:002014-04-27T13:14:47.398+01:00(aɪˈdəʊlɒn)<div class="post_title" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: none 0px;">
<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;">now those eidolic dread horses have scarred your slumber, passed 9, passed 10, and even your furniture has silent, open mouthed, nightmares over the too soon dead, dead school friends who never ended their crossings and see, see, she stoops, in shroud ghastly knelt as in prayer but you can’t see, see through the tricks of light that scream “she is there”, your crumpling chest boiling as the bones in your legs subside while those, without body, cross the empty room, no need to surmise that which lies bereft and restless may yet have something to say and you are the luckless soul who lives upon their byway and now, now the voices, the voices start, those grody sounds, that won’t stop, stop your heart, beneath the floor, within the walls, the precedent for dull footfalls calling, calling to us one by one with no clear sight of saint or villain a spectral round of hide and seek directed by a floorboards creak each time we search there’s nothing, nothing there, but of this guest we’re so aware, who was first, it or us, we can’t be sure, sure it wasn’t brought from distant shores, for it never raised its head or voice before, before that gift from land of Vlad was carried over our threshold and ushered in something, something cold, the bearer of an ancient fear something as of yet unclear, or are we in thrall of phantoms more explainable </span></div>
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This is a combination and refinement of what were two seperate poems, previously published, to make by far a more satisfying whole. I believe it more convingly captures some of the fear and panic I was trying to convey and should be read in a breathless manner as if you were living in a world that was entirely scripted by Samuel Beckett</div>
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Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-30280890865827026612014-03-31T16:22:00.001+01:002014-03-31T16:22:11.087+01:00A Review of my Collection "scratch"As it seems to have been passed over in the publication of choice I'm taking the liberty of posting the review of my collection scratch, by the wonderful MulletProofPoet:<br />
<br />
<strong>Scratch <br />Paul Sands </strong><br />
<strong></strong><br />
<strong>Sadly, these days, many poetry collections often come with a free side order of smart-arse, either that or they’re brimming with their own (usually misplaced) level of confidence, which gathers like dust upon their best selling, yet largely unread pages. Nottingham born Paul Sands though, with his second collection Scratch, hands us something altogether more solid, more real. This is poetry with its gloves off, an angled worldview, knocked off kilter by its own sense of disappointment and redeeming ability to spot obscured signs of beauty through rusted iron railings and filthy broken windows.</strong><br />
<strong>Lines like ‘pull your shoulders off guard/a silent sob sewn with angry years/asphyxiated by tea as the lizards feebly grope the summer’s eyes’ quickly assure us that there is a talent here which is so honed, so skilled, yet so down to earth, so grubby, that it’s less like reading a book and more like walking through an abandoned underpass whose walls are lined with piss and William Blake graffiti. Great stuff.</strong>Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-80391824966669702002014-01-09T13:18:00.000+00:002014-01-09T13:18:17.064+00:00Squib<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_52cea02b0e7371c42323950">
<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Rigid truths and squared guarantees<br /> Texture this boy<br /> His morseled fantasies <br /> The graceless torrent of impotent gods<br /> Wary as the wasp on the chameleon's<br /> Trapeze tongue<br /> For even as the microscope remains<br /> Boxed, in cotton, in woollen peace<br /> Rags may still record<br /> Fidelity's soiled tapestry<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> Once stung the swollen speech<br /> Of reason's soured and thickened song<br /> Bastards the condensed apprenticeship<br /> Fields a howling, childish drove where<br /> Dreams so quickly cloud to sheep<br /> I could so easily...shhhh <br /> You shall not impeach me for the rhymes<br /> That I declined</span></span></div>
Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-74557854920185623942014-01-09T13:15:00.001+00:002014-01-09T13:15:59.017+00:00In Need of a RevampMay need to roll this place into the garage and give it a good servicePaul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-84872483258197406892013-09-20T20:55:00.000+01:002013-09-20T20:55:01.038+01:00Interest Only<br />
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">all square within the confines</span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
of the cask conditioned discothèque</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
from without my fitful anti-sleep</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
came the wasps </div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
and creeping hands </div>
</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
that spidered across the ceiling and floor</div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
unsure of the etiquette for trembling</div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
delirium</div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">yet, for three pages, I was</span></div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
in the clear, gone, beyond the provincial</div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
boots of leaden grit, though by the fourth</div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
the interest had waned even while that </div>
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
was all that remained</div>
</span></span>Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-10076287397481122052013-09-20T20:45:00.002+01:002013-09-20T20:45:28.460+01:00Mutuality<br />
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">friends of friends and an orgy of mutuality</span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
every one ripe for the fucking until we greedily</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
eat our own tails </div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
I find myself running low on chemistry </div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
with so little reaction left inside of me</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
the water around the plug hole no longer spins, </div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
it only falls</div>
</span></span>Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-72864014207591844402013-09-05T21:56:00.000+01:002013-09-05T21:56:16.778+01:00written in the dirt<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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and stirring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">come
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">unleash
your jotting scribe and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">cast
the showery runes of fables untried</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">forge
scripts along our droughty lanes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">of
songs for all that yet remain</span></div>
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wash away those pages brown,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">whelm
witness to our temporal sway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">as
she swallows every dripping word </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">of
this crisp & chilled September cleansing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">for
she has such a slumberous summer thirst</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">the rain drums his fingers
impatiently</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">along the length of a blue
dusting lung busting puckered roof</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">and fingers the gaps where once
there was glass</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">wire veined, designed to
resist </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">a boot, a fist a flick of
the wristy bone</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">trebuchet yet now carpeting
this concrete nest </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">of surly youth in a crystal
expression of boys </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">when they are bored</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">nowhere better then than
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smokeasy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">for the bad ones who will
always try their best,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">after mocking words and a
quart of cider,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">to cop a feel of the big
bird’s breasts</span></div>
Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-56372599131999789332013-08-31T01:11:00.001+01:002013-08-31T01:11:31.393+01:00Special Delivery<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">will your choices<br />look so appealing<br />once the ripped rattle of surgical hit or miss <br />draws the sweet stench of bloody failure?<br /><br />you shouting the case of expectancy<br />and justice for all, along and behind<br />the pipeline, convinces none but the fool<br /><br />all the things you know<br />all the hydra sown<br /><br />don't let the facts stand in the way<br />of a good campaign<br />we’ll all smile for the camera sat at 15,000 feet<br />and take our death to go</span>Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-20225159940417494042013-08-29T20:16:00.002+01:002013-08-31T00:29:26.118+01:00shelter '81<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">without
fail</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">I would
watch</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">from my
third floor </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">neon,
Freon, digital eyrie</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">as he
scraped his arse along the street</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">shuffling,
scuffing the rags that passed for raiment</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">ripping the
empty legs further each night</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">as the
chorus of inebriate fighters,</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">noses
swollen veined plums,</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">caroused
and cajoled his every</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">gravelled
slide</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">while
throwing punches, and each other, can in hand</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">at passing
cars</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">his limbs,
of wood and plastic,</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">would
arrive later</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">under
police escort</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">old world
problems under the new world’s </span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">hardened,
refrigerated glaze</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">every
evening</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">without
fail</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;">until the
day he didn’t</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Typist;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">you’re cold, button up, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">batten down the hatched
glass</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">these mean talking ghosts
offer</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">little anonymity to
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>marrowfat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">of shoulder high memories</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">sister in all but time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">an “a star” in the morning</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">yet the many delights,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">ours but for the cleansed
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">and thighs, came as you
sounded </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">memory in your truth’s
thunder </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">blackened through evidence</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">guilty by my whence
exchanged</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">I command the devil’s songs
but </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">am I just faded delight?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">“swing more” she demands,
washed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">guilty thrice through her
heels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">and laced heart and slumber
now standing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist;">in strength washed on a
once</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">cracked spit drawn open
mouthed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">and verdict free </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">poured closer to the two
hole cluster</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">the depth of a friendship
must fight back </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist;">lyrically<span class="hps"></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">no philosophy</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am no
philosopher</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am Paul
from The Meadows</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">pulled
skinny poor from the shadows</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">to put a
deal of fat on his bones</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">so how did
I end up here?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">what
penalty did I accrue?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">taking the
ten point deduction</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">for
conduct unbecoming</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">I place my
attention deficit on re-order</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">that I
don’t yet forget </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">smothered
in the scrim of this Hogarthian hood</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">every chip
toothed blue scriptured face</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">proffers
passage to a poisonous but</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">tantalising
hook</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">to write
the junk must I taste the junk?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">peddled or
paddled for a sweeter flight</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">this
avenue never taken,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">hedonic
ingress unwalked, unwanted </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">yet still
wondered</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">could such
deep surrender be so sweet</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">to allow
the most intimate of plunder?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">am I
Dante?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">corralled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>around the streets </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">of a
society that shows no compromise</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">amongst
the dying embers of fallen enterprise</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">eternal
damnable gyres </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">around a
fucked shit pyre </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">of
concrete, glass and broken humanity</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">with each
uttered breath a cold cocktail of profanity</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">the
bouncing soles of the air I wear may ease me </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">over the
gummed archipelagos<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">flag
spij-speckle guaran islands</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">slab
secure and fast</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">against
the counselled wash</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">an eternal
fossilised chaw </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">that
resists the fiercest chemical blast</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">lost in
this sea<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot be but shaken by</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">the waxy
man with his head of startled hemp </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">and
coterie of cracked carbon</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">as he
breaches the domestic brink</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">turning a
key, his</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">shoulders
hunched in</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">protective
shawl against</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">the
spittled spate </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">he stares
back through me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">for
sightless miles insides out, front to rear,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">then
scuffles, rattling, townwardly</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">cannot
resist the insecticidal compulsion </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">of the
green and white purgatory</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">where the
neatly stacked wash of fluorescence</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">makes oven
ready your heaven</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">amid the
threnodial thrum of </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">a hundred
syncopated Siemens</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">following
that shuffling cortege of the bussed in dead and dying</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am
dutiful, altar bound, avowed and accursed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">the host
with the ghosts in this haunted mall</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">lost and
lonely within England’s
mountain green</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">it is no
longer the god bothering needles and blunts</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>draw the crowds </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">as flat
screened pharmacological rapture, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">that
trinity of distilled, medicated caffeination</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">lead a
once pious nation through a precocious dream</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">maybe
Allah yet sees here his</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jerusalem</span><span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;"> and leads his children</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Typist; font-size: 14.0pt;">upon England’s
land of crescent green</span></div>
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Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-17909204227092132552013-05-18T15:16:00.000+01:002013-05-18T15:16:02.635+01:00Good Morning, Good Morning<div class="caption">
this house is awakening<br />
It yawns and stretches its <br />
aged bones, as last night’s ghosts scurry<br />
home, with the copper blood running<br />
warm through worm pricked floors<br />
I lie,like you, while you lie,<br />
like me, under the nights warm stink<br />
and the claw and the purr<br />
of the cat’s half lidded lazy gaze<br />
as the foundations shake with each<br />
passingrace of 18 wheel freight<br />
the breakfast chorus is missing,<br />
presumed drowned,<br />
so this morning demands a virtuoso performance<br />
“how do you want your eggs my dearest, <br />
square or round?” too early for her <br />
to answer a question quite so profound<br />
“still inside a bird please” whispers the cat<br />
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Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-2690901950918897202013-05-08T22:38:00.002+01:002013-05-08T22:38:47.371+01:00Quietly, I <br />
<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); text-align: left;">quietly, quietly sat a lie</span></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
arms outstretched</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
palms staked to the fierce eye</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
observing within</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
as, first, flesh mottles</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
closer still to see without</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
while blister</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
vermilion doubts</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
one apiece of each</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
seized mortal engine</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
dripped of framed wax</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
placed in a filleted whole</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
gas pored</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
for a hungry earth</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
this is all I wish today</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
let each word die in a dusty throat</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
a melt that no tears will slake</div>
</span><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">
I want away</div>
</span></span>Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-49410686183807517232013-04-27T12:00:00.000+01:002013-04-27T12:00:18.488+01:00Joanne Elizabeth<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></u></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">published in Forward Poetry Near & Far anthology October 2012</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Joanne Elizabeth waits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
Beneath a powder blasted <br />
cornflower welkin,<br />
washed by a summer zephyr’s <br />
saline kiss,<br />
she waits.<br />
<br />
Atop her rubber footed<br />
iron bed,<br />
on the sand and pebbles<br />
amidst the tidal spume <br />
and detritus<br />
she watches.<br />
<br />
A brusque, oily breathed<br />
airborne flotilla,<br />
the sky's very own<br />
flotsam and jetsam,<br />
gyre and gripe<br />
and tarry.<br />
<br />
The ocean<br />
is ready now<br />
as garrulous salvos wuther<br />
up peaks and troughs,<br />
and churn the beryl<br />
into muddy soup.<br />
<br />
And now there are men,<br />
in a flurry <br />
of flavous oilskins, <br />
who rough house <br />
Joanne Elizabeth<br />
stolidly asea.<br />
<br />
Edged mindfully into<br />
the grubby moil<br />
she bucks atop <br />
each tumbling crest<br />
and turns her back<br />
on Neptunes cache<br />
<br />
Those brine zested swabs<br />
set fair to the wind<br />
and pitch her alee<br />
once more through the surge<br />
but Joanne Elizabeth<br />
testily abjures<br />
<br />
Rebuffed , repulsed<br />
and firmly aground<br />
the mariners surrender<br />
their petulant mount<br />
and humbly drudge<br />
ashore<br />
<br />
They stand <br />
forbearingly in the face of <br />
a caustic mizzle<br />
steadfast gaze <br />
a good league distant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><br />
“<i>No fish today</i>”</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">god
said “there’s a bone in my soup”</span></span></h5>
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and spat it out</div>
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and for many years it crawled</div>
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before it learned to stand</div>
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and it said “I will make you now a fresh bowl,</div>
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from my family’s blood”</div>
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smoke</span>
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<span class="usercontent">the intention couldn't be clearer</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">while the tattooed roads wear the
organic stains</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">as footholds for a memory of fallen
phosphor rain</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="usercontent">yet more caustic the harvest we reap
</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">from the drone grown crone wept
bones</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">even as the stone groves grow over
the dead hope of</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">the pebble eyed children in their
dreamless sleep</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="usercontent">suffer the children our selfish
gains</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">our bloody games</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="usercontent">always the children</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">each
night I sleep</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">entwined
in the comfortable branches</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">of a
mossy oak</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">by day
I play </span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">among
the lissom saplings</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">and
wonder</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">how far
I might still bend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">they lined up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">in their smart suits and executive hair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">outside the foundation stone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of a nations ruin ready to eulogise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">to heap praise upon a legacy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">of division</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the traffic slowed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">and the tempers frayed in a burg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">where there is never enough</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">most had left by 8PM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">save one expecting maybe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">a ghost?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">returning at the earliest light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">most had moved into town</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I popped my head inside a truck and said</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">one yet remains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">awaiting the stone to roll back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">my wife, the daughter of a miner,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">as she scans the customers cloying praise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"its nice about the flowers isn’t
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">the miners were greedy and she spits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"<b><i>tell that to those with
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">white knuckle and crippled joints</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">better still come here and say it to my
face</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">"</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE;"></span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;"></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">every curtain will be stolen from </span>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">entitlement</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">each grain of dirt will raise </span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">it’s raucous voice above</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">and over manners</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">while atoms bond</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">as gravity exists</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">believable in it’s force</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">secure each ideal</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">under fire from</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">truthful lies repeated</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">within freedom’s</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">monopoly of slaves</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">these days shall soon decay</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">and time shall re-cast </span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">the farce of history</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">lest we stand... </span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE;">light-up and run </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">© </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Paul Sands 2013</span></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">on the promise of a viscous promiscuity</span></div>
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I would normally shoot first, clean the mess later, ensure
no witness survives</div>
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in the middleweek each slatternly evening should be bedded
early </div>
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<br /></div>
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recently, though, the inclination of a night is to drink</div>
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coffee? </div>
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right! right! right!</div>
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read and write and write and ride a hundred of your dirty
looks</div>
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in an all night steaming just to thumb fuck the irresistible
where</div>
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god granted good sense is disavowed </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="commentbody">christ my mind tonight where hasn’t
it been</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="commentbody">a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>rattling mess</span></div>
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<span class="commentbody">from the petty penury of the
millennium’s silent bells</span></div>
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<span class="commentbody">through a razored grift of oyster
shells </span></div>
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<span class="commentbody">via<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>packet steamed voyage that will never be</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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and I’m screaming</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“why can’t you be my Yoko, passionista,</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">intravenous burned brown celluloid injector</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">crowning, howling, screaming blood-letter</i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">leech wife barfly spittle shined philosopher</i></b>”</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="commentbody">instead there waits a world to be
shared </span></div>
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<span class="commentbody">by just her and me</span></div>
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wings clipped by vows and golden bands</div>
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buried under the demands of continence </div>
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<br /></div>
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the peripatetic spur sundered </div>
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marrow spoon hollowed and forsaken in the soured grass</div>
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where lost co-ordinates of days of grace and grand escapes</div>
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offer no cue for slagged ambulant dreams</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
laid to rest in choked and over worked seams</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
disappointment is spread so thickly over the sailcloth of
expectations</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
while deep within these tubes lies a germ of posterity</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and its beetle glinting crawlspace</div>
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spits an imagined this</div>
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<br /></div>
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move </div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
change the frequency, your smoke is staining my ears</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="commentbody">move</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
remain though the matter of my subject</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
you and your forced finger self-inflicted wounds </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="commentbody">if my words don't flow the knives
come out </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="commentbody">my hands may form a loving fist for
the needful dough</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I could carve a new you and I have just the tool</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="commentbody">but she, already dead, chides</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="commentbody">“count your breaths, count your
blessings”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
which begs me to ask is there too much on the page?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
while the dead are still singing the wind must always</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
beg caution</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
how much attention does this whore seek?</div>
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fracked and sluiced to the point of release</div>
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where every kind of juice spills</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
from pores palm greased</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with the patina of slovenly verse</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
paupered by the diminished returns </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
of a creased core</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
what is the call?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span class="commentbody">I stay, a frog in a pan, of course</span></div>
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<span class="commentbody">warning<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shy of every hopeful morning </span></div>
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<span class="commentbody">and in </span><span class="entry-content">a' very short space of wine' </span></div>
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<span class="entry-content">it will be love again</span></div>
Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-44423621662196119352013-04-14T22:03:00.005+01:002013-04-14T22:05:11.302+01:00a visit<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow"></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">I went
to visit my mother this morning</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">and ask
her if she had any ideas</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">at
first I couldn’t find her amidst the rows of pheasants calling</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">the
timber testaments swayed & shivered bare</span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">each quondam
cortex as crisp as the next</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">so there
I sat awaiting a warmer air</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">once
found though she had nothing to offer</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">and I
gave nothing back</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">save
anger </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">at the appearance
of a mis-dated plaque</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">far
better then to merely watch</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">four
spot shadows along the foundations of the stream </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">mimic skaters
spinning a springtime dream</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">and a
passing frog paused with a question in his throat </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;">
<span class="textexposedshow">so I
took out my pen and paper that I might write notes</span></div>
<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">his words weren’t for me either</span>Paul Sandshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03086368725452065351noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3123336434964923610.post-34941846007954355912013-04-07T20:01:00.003+01:002013-04-07T20:01:19.159+01:00what crisis?<br />
<div class="caption">
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">nowadays they have to pinch the ends</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">of their cigarettes before they cross the threshold</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">no longer allowed to herd the crumbling swarms</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">of ash across the gingham veldt</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">outside the window, on the pavement, lies a bible</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and the radio declares their readiness is high</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">seems like a good night to let the smokers</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">in and warm around a last embered light</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">on the table I browse <strong><em>the “priest“ they called him</em></strong></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">in the centrefold, deep in the heart, a flyer,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong><em>man’s journey into christ</em></strong>,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I guess we’ll find out soon enough the veracity of the divine</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">but until the young-un and the white horse riders</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">have decided who can piss the highest</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">leave us to the daily diary and its tales of</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">days of fucking each other’s husbands and wives</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I bought a Dylan Thomas book one the way home,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">from the junk shop,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">when I got it back I saw blood on the back cover</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I licked my finger to wipe it off but she said “no! you fool“</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">sure it carried the plague of some cursed lover</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I plagiarise myself</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a drink is most definitely in order</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span class="commentbody" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">the tawny coolness tock tick toxic keen as the</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span class="commentbody" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">sharpest dissection</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="commentbody">and then you can find me </span>not just like everybody else but just like</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 15px;">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">everybody else lying hemi-hydrate below the bridled tension</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">of life’s meniscus<span class="commentbody"></span></span></div>
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