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A Long Walk
She's gone again, I dont know where
Her nightly walks a bit of a mystery,
I wonder if there's some fancy man
After all, she has a bit of a history
If I had any sense, I'd try to follow her
Difficult to think its come down to this,
Yet we dont communicate anymore
To be fair, it was never married bliss
A copper at the door with bad news
They've found a woman in t...
Monday 23rd November 2020 11:03 am
Skip Hire
Moved in, hired a skip
In here time stood still
Dealt with the daughter
Her dad gone, taken ill
Bathroom has lead pipes
Ceilings tobacco-stained
Window timbers rotten
Wet-rot well-engrained
Valuers took the quality
I'm left with foisty rugs
Sixties-style bric-a-brac
A zoo of domestic bugs
Fifty years in this semi
Kids married, wife dead,
Mak...
Friday 16th October 2020 11:00 am
A Heart With No History
When I saw your wayward ways
My heart switched into reverse
This was far from what I wanted
An outcome so plainly perverse
Yours was a heart with no history
We were strangers, noon till night
The one I married was a mystery
A mirror that reflected no light
Tales you told me of your past
Turned out to be little but fiction
I stood next to a stranger when
T...
Tuesday 1st September 2020 10:43 am
Its A Pushover
Re-writing history's a
Picnic Cromwell's
Puritans
Henry V111 and the
Monasteries
Pol Pot Stalin
Mao Tse Tung killied
Millions when they
Pulled down the statue of
Saddam Hussein how that
Transformed Iraq the
Taliban blowing up the
Buddhas made Afghanistan a
Model state simply
Toss a lump of metal into the
Canal
Thursday 11th June 2020 11:34 am
Skidmarks
Judging the crimes of
History is easy just
Pull down a statue but
Who's judging us?
We get away with murder:
Inequality rife
Vice condoned
Old folk choking
Starving kids
Mass extinctions the
Planet going to hell,
Hourly we
Bequeath fresh skidmarks for
Our kids to
Topple
Thursday 11th June 2020 10:57 am
Requiem For A Denon
In layers of strata lie the tracks of history
Archaeologists hunt for artefacts and bones
I cut off your flex and buried you with ceremony
Lamenting the demise of your dulcet tones
Sentinel moonlight lit the private interment
Your laser will exhume Miles Davis no longer
Millenia of chords traversed that plastic portal
You left me deaf, my hearing aids get stronger
...
Thursday 16th April 2020 12:57 pm
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