Standing by the Beast of Belsen's desk
On my lunchbreak at work
"Let go" for a nonsense reason
The boss is a twerp

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kv2QIq465lULL9VUHbyr4JUkSyWtHZu-I

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poets lie too much

they lie to themselves

sometimes to avoid

being stuck on the shelves

not the shelves of the library

or the ones in the sea

not the ones in the hall of fame

the ones in romantic comedy

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expose
jealous noise
anxiety chair
syrup
flame metal
innocent copy
interest huge

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my instrumental album: https://cbyrne.bandcamp.com/album/samples

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You give me the crippling weaknesses
To seas the strength
To measure the distance
To go to the lengths

This is a movement
A wide and long view
Almost a song by me
A finite Wandering Jew

Don’t take my stories for symbolism
You obviously ain't be there
I'm building solid foundations
For my castles in the air

Try transform attachments to fine feelings
It's easier written than done
...

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I'm the Ronnie Pickering of yellow stickering

They know not to mess with me

I'm the Big Ron of yellow stickering

Faster n' sharper elbows you never will see

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3 liars on the shirt

P.Patel still smirking

HanCock likes to flirt

Johnson still is shirking

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Hardly ever visited before I started pub going
Even though I lived 2 miles away
But I only got to know the town well
When I started working there one day

Pollution was worse than the M25
They tried to cover it up
Masks are advised - Covid or not
In "Nam" you might have to cough up

The town's bins are a veritable treasure trove
Look at what they throw away!
If you want to go bin ...

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Lee Scott should not in 2022 need an introduction to fans of underground UK rap (but may need one to non-fans). He is arguably the best rapper in the UK of the past 10 years, profilic musician and record label co-owner who has helped bring many talents from the North East of England such as King Grubb, Tony Broke & Bill Shakes to a wider audience. 

Yet still his music is not as widely known as ...

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'A clown car on fire running at full speed into a warehouse full of fireworks' 
- Stephanie Grisham (former Trump aide) on the Trump  administration

Welcome to Bojo's Crazy Clown Show
Roll up and smoke a BIG crack spliff
It's Bojo's Crazy Clown Show
Inhale and catch his drift

It's Bojo's Crazy Clown Show
Might go on for a few more years
At Bojo's Crazy Clown Show
The laughter's tu...

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The liar: lying: unblinking
Endemic corruption stinking
This country's slowly sinking
Am I alone in thinking?

Spoons nation increase the drinking
Man-made shackles clinking
Unfunny joker winking
Am I alone in thinking?

Of the truth there is no inkling
Brexit "Great Britain" shrinking
The one-eyed man is him: King
Am I alone in thinking?

Of more than the economy
Of others worse o...

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Your local pub got shut down
You didn't go elsewhere
The world - it started shrinking
We thought you'd disappeared

Your local got closed down
You'd never go elsewhere

Meet up at the meat raffle

Familiar faces everywhere

You went out to work
To do the shop
You sometimes went to Weatherspoons
Finished off with a kebab

You read the Spoons magazine
The "UK's most popular po...

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The deejay from the UK had a really great time
Staying up all night, regularly
For days and decades
Not just some weekends and the odd holiday

Vitamin D levels were not optimal
Midday sunless UK
No talk of Circadian rhythms
He slept in the daytime

Still about, and now in his fifties
In the flesh and not Photochopped
He looks like something chasing Frodo in those films
A cousin of de...

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The year arrived

Like a Quaker hangover

Where you need to get

To a chapel of rest

WW3

After another Tory victory

Didn't seem to be unexpected

In the way things seem be to going

"Hope springs eternal"

Said the poet / cripple

Try to stand up straight

Rebuild and start over again

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She's a real Disney princess

Of the dream / woke monarchical elite

£2m refurbishments of their house

Paid for in part by homeless on the street

Eyes wider than her waistline

Charity hunger energy always trending

I really wish any young couple all the best

And also wish her a happy ending

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After https://twitter.com/poetniall/status/1214491140554207232

The year arrived

Like a Quaker hangover

Where you need to get

To a chapel of rest

WW3

After another Tory victory

Didn't seem to be unexpected

In the way things seem be to going

"Hope springs eternal"

Said the poet / cripple

Try to stand up straight

Rebuild and start over again

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At least at the last chance saloon

You might be able to rest easy for a while

Maybe have a drink or two

Listen to good music

In this den of no hopers

Desperate prayers fly up

Dreams come crashing down

And all that's left is another gamble

The one armed-bandit turned slowly

Into a whole new ball game

Hangman

The odds were fixed on the screens

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Poetry slam
Bang on a can

Gesture and prattle
Crank the rattle

If it's funny
I spit the dummy

If the poetry slams
Throw the toys out the pram

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I'm just that guy from the open mic

It's not important - you know my name

I'm just that guy from the open mic

Naked and quick like firework flame

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Roll up

Join the tour

Look around

There’s a Shard n’ the London Eye

Weeping and saw it all

The laundry never shuts down

Sprouting chrome and glass

Soaring drone over the underpass

Too Many Mr Bigs from here & there

Too big individually to take on

Watching Games of Thrones

Sword fights in the street

Young boy died of stab wounds

“...

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Like Poseidon with a chip fork

He's washed up (at Aldeburgh town)

No vinegar - he's bitter enough

Know-all coward in his dressing gown

Found a cheap place to put his big fat head

Jukebox blaring every night

Full English each & every morning

Will surely be served right

Sea sky see 50 shades grey

Just like his sex life there

Aging man in old village

Remaini...

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You might one day not win a local poetry competition 
In a Camberley bookshop that you once unsuccessfully applied for a job in.

Counting the failures,
The same poem might one day get published in an academic journal.

Then back to Camberley

You come second in a poetry slam

Out of two

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the desert rose
the first lady of hell on earth 
she takes my breath away

like poison gas

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An island again

Back to the edge of Europe

It's not the end of the world

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Forget most gangsta rappers

It's getting out of hand

When they say they know Killers

They're probably talking 'bout the band

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These words are loaded
Like Alfred Nobel's factory shed

After the explosions
May come the notoriety

After false reports of my demise
Will come some atonement

After the prize
Then hopefully the peace

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Do not blunder your knight

In games of love and war

Or all you may be left with is pawn

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The muse can be found
In high places
Where through the back door 
You can see the ground though the floor of the balcony

A precipice runs along to the front door
The muse can be found in remote places
Where and when you would never
Choose to go

Vertigo and other things heavy 
Headed for the other side
Into the air
Falling like a Mary hail

Theres no bell at the front door
Up...

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Look at you
Look at you through your see through umbrella
Look at you in your mascara and eye makeup
Making me look at you in the eye
Look at you in your spangly top catching the light
Look at me looking but not touching

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When we meet I'm flying high
Soon to be crashing down (was I shot?)
Or to disappear off the face of the earth
Into an oceanic abyss

Unlike Maarten de Jonge

I always get on

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You don't get my point
Not matter how hard I try
English's not my first language
But I will get by

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Ooh la la

Fiona

Penches-toi

Pour moi

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She said I'm like a Mr Grey 
In that John Major kind of way

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/249269627/Poems-1985-2011-by-C-Byrne

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On Reverdie
Early enough in the mourning
I ventured out for a ramble 
In a foreign place I laid down by a river for a rest
Fell asleep
And saw Aisling again
8 to 7 years later in Tubber Tintye
I soon remembered what I had spent 7 to 8 years nearly to the day
In forgetting
On a seat I sat me down and had a notion again
We talked about work, ice cream and vomiting
Tall pretty women, ...

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You left your permanent mark on me
I couldn't leave the same
As we passed by slowly
Like a non-safety match
Scraping on a sandpaper box.
My eyes rolled back as you scratched me
With what felt like the sharp bit of a safety pin
You got under my skin
It must be car paint or writing ink
(Of which there is no data on safe use on humans)
It's gone from tenderness and swelling
To itching...

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Blood diamonds dripping from my neck and wrist
It’s hard to see through your frosted ice, snow and mist
She’s showing off her rock like it means something
It could be a cola ring-pull or a piece of string
“Eternity rings are for when you get eterned” -
That’s a lesson in love that I have learned
De Beers marketing man set in stone - it’s true
That I work for 2 months to say with metal ...

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The girl danced the hokey cokey
Before smoking a fag
She obviously wanted
The best of both worlds

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I wish we'd never met 
In a country world famous for its
Strong & delicious beer*
It (not me) gave you the wrong idea

*cheap too at the time

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The muse looked at the poems

Like a painting on a wall

"I recognise a likeness

But that isn't me at all"

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The intended consequence

Is like what the phlebotomist warns
You might feel a small prick

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Fiona is such a good Christian

Humble, mild and meek

Whenever I pinch her on the bum

She turns the other cheek

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Flags as permanent curtains

Or painted on the walls

The bunting biodegrades
The only black in the Union Jack
Is the tag saying "Made in Taiwan"

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I'm just a scaffolder

Hopefully making (more than one temporary) solid structure used to support people and material 

In the construction or repair of their projects 
Did you remember to bring me the silver?
Axe swinging in the static
Just trying to hang in chains
Watching it become unbalanced
And sometimes some crashing down
Onto the other side of the road

Did you forget to bring m...

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Crumbling into water

It's spitting again
Drought soon rains
The most beautiful sprummer's day came
After the first Northern winter
Puking in the garden on the night before
This time blaming the Yorkshire take on Tex Mex cuisine
"Everything is beautiful" on the radio summing up 3 years

On the last morning

Between arriving and leaving

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The night sky of the East Coast

With street light power cut

Then the bells rolling down Victoria Road out to sea

All of which was for me

The best poetry

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Open you up

See you as a whole
Find your hidden meaning
Remove your ambiguity
By describing your form
Examine your fine lines close up
Put my fingers on you
Make you smudge your ink

Dispell your allusions

Bring light to your argument

 

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Chemtrials are pollution
Simple and plane
Pollution from a plane or
Just pollution from a plane

Myth from man made phenomena of the sky
Like humans did to try and touch the rainbow,
Hear the ride of the Valkyries as
The northern lights fly by 

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Under dark, damp skies in farmers' fields

The Menin Gate - a foundation stone
A crowd of a few hundred waits silently 
On this bright white memorial on shattered bone

At the stroke of 8pm every evening
Four men in greatcoats come not to play
But raise their bugles to their lips
To remember the Fallen at the end of each day

Based on http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/104...

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