Whether in an Aleppo sky or hung on a wall

A white vigilantly or a dollar bill that falls on Clinton’s floor

We wait with bated breath for those that will kill us all

The black noose will become an accessory in Georgia

Or a closed shop on Capitol Hill

With each candidate you and me never win

We wait with vile breath, who will strangle the rest of us?

And in...

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She scrolls up
She scrolls down 
She likes 
She loves 
She’s shocked and surprised

Sends a photo
Sends an update

She likes a photo of her child…
Who’s just fallen on floor

She scrolls up
She looks down

She is shocked and surprised …
Takes a photo
Of the bloody mess
Shares it online

Her Friends
Scroll up
Scroll down

Pass comments 200 (at least)
Sits back on the bus 
...

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Journalists cower under the covers

Fearing the thud thud at the door

Lesbians and gay men can’t hold each other

As its sodomy by their laws

In a far flog place

Western music is a gas

Free thought toxic

And they want no beer in your glass

Books are being stripped from the shelves

Writers are stamped upon

Western dress frowned upon

Your daughter must learn ...

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The dust has settled

On this burnt out land

Wiping up a desert storm of hatred

“Get out of My Land”

This bastard generation took it upon themselves

To set fire to happiness

Torch a refugee home

Spit in the face of their neighbour,

 Drilled holes of hatred into their children’s eyes

The dust has settled

On this burnt out land

The dust had settled …

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The moth caught the fly in the spider's web, 
Spun and spun printed lies
Reamed out again and again
With the Sky and The Sun spewing out poisonous venom
Deadening the English folk
To kindness or hope.

The moth caught the butterfly
Wrapped it up nicely, delivered it
On a Yorkshire step

"Gotcha"

They whispered 
And carried on spinning
Their poisonous web.

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I fear the worst…

And hate the best

They’ve made it crystal   clear

On the backs of our sinking boat

Perched high

On our expectations

They scooped the cream

I fear the worst

And hate the rest

Who didn’t wait for their hip replacement

But slide over the que

Lay in a cushion bed

All silky and clean

Giorgio Armani

The latest I phone

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It was diced with vodka shots

Laced in tears

Permutated throughout the day

With fag ends

Cluttering the day

Who saw the death of C. R.M coming your way.

His hand on the bus pass

Pushing in front of the cue

Making his way to a destination

Undesirable   to you

Took himself to a coffee stop       

With no thought to drink

Just to take a...

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I used to love those cells so much

Those that became so fond of you

Trapped as I was between youth and despair

Holding onto branches and life’s first parting of hair

I used to lie in bed

Turning over life’s first body blow

You growing cold

Whilst my hair was wet with fever

And I as a boy said

“Don’t go”

Not knowing why or what for

A few years before I kic...

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It’s breathing down my neck

Is it an angel or your dad

A vile and putrid mess

What have you done with your wife’s dress

Ripping it into

The betting slip takes the full force

You were hanging on for a draw

Then your mother called

Pushing the ball over the line

This life becoming a mixed plate

A cement mixer of thoughts

No way out of the crowed

Streaming through y...

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All of a sudden the air becomes thin

And the glee of jumping out of work on Friday like a drunken chimpanzee is gone

Instead the day becomes heavy…

Weighed down in disbelief that the minutes are ticking faster and faster

“Surely it’s not already twenty past three”

Then the evening falls, like a Transylvanian night

The gargoyles and wolves howling as you are passed your last right...

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Across the globe

Even in the heart of Chicago with supporters

Chanting “nigger go home.”

Followed soon by the lynch mob and the hanging tree

Welcome back America it’s 1963

Donald Trump’s smelt

Like a poison gas in the air

It’s the Mexicans the Muslims even your wife

“I’m just saying what’s on your mind and giving you a gun (license) to take them out”

Black...

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Don’t take me to the airport

Or theatre hall

Don’t take me to the football match

I don’t care who scores

Don’t go with me to the station

They’ll take both our loves

Let’s not go shopping…

We can get it online

The park is beautiful

But the bin holds something nasty inside

Don’t take me to the airport

Or anywhere

Signed with gracious thanks

Allah...

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No words to express

The deafening neglect of pain

A bomb rips through a carrier bag

With flour, bread for breakfast, and why not,

A beautiful bottle of champagne

Now mingled with the body parts

Flowing down the drain

No words to express

The deafening neglect of pain

The drip drip drip of people’s names

Until

It’s calling out our name 

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I must preserve myself,

In a vat of wine

Keep me for special occasions

“You’re mine

You’re mine”

Holding me close

Till I’m old and mature

Sip myself gently

Preserve what’s left…

Of the

Bitter tasting

Life...

© David R Mellor 2016

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I'm not sure when I started divorce proceedings
against myself
told him to get out 
we're through, of all those false promises and lies.
Your ability to crush a butterfly 
and complain it bit your hand.

I'm not sure I can stay with you..
til the bitter end
I suppose...
I could take us down a notch or two 
and just try to be 
friends

(from seam less FB)

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“I am wretched...           

In my own skin

Bleeding…”am dingkin iand see you to discuss this

.000 hits as a possibility that i ould meet up to discuss any possible event

directly

Insanity

Until it begins to take way

Each coming day

“Gathering at darkness

Like a beast

I pray”

Take it away

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We grieve like melted snow

Nothing to hold on

And they will never know

How the warm tears gathered

On our mourning fate

To repeat this sad snow storm

On each and every face

© David R Mellor 2016

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I didn't realise how bad life could be 
Until I realised I was me

Naked in front of the mirror
Bulges where there shouldn't be 
Time wasted, time wasted, time wasted me

I didn't realise how quickly the clock of time could 
Cover me, leave me, breathless, and not

how it should be

Me up a tree
Me with you Carl creating Marvel figures before tea

Time wastes, time wasted, time wast...

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Let us buy trinkets and souvenirs

writing postcards to those

we miss so dear...

rubbing shoulders with those

you never meet...

taking selfies, laughing out

loud...

smiling at a young man

who is standing proud

taking a breath...

in the cold winter air

he sees my body parts flung

through the air...

Let us by trinkets and souvenirs

writing postc...

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