she sells veg at

a market stall

red raw flesh is not her bag at all

shuddering at

a carcase hung

spring lambs slaughtered far too young

inconsistent,

she likes my meat

licks and sucks and chews it neat

often rare if

I worked away

then it hardly leaves her mouth all day

when it's overdone

meat makes her sore

but ointment brings her back ...

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conceived in a cellar, of

a Tommy home on leave,

mother waving mistletoe,

shortly she would grieve

official dad inert upstairs

exempt due to his arches,

Tommy back to trenches

bullets or forced marches

killed in action in the mud

in my blood's a war hero,

official dad a profiteer,

moral fibre less than zero

the duality in mistletoe,

fertile of ...

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I left Mabel to look after the plumber

A token of my trust in one so new

My ex-girlfriend rang on the land line

And Mabel saw red, her fuses blew

When I got home the bathroom was smashed

My new peach bidet lay in bits on the floor

No sign of Mabel, just her handiwork

And a bathroom with blood on the door

We think we know someone but don't

Jealousy with their re...

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