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January 2023 Collage Poem: Put on your Slippers and Kill

Restless spirit casts off his friar’s robe

And steps into the fatal arms of love

Let the wound bleed out all the bad blood

From the shadow monk

 

Lost hippy dancer takes a drug

To take her back but she is now 73

And no one looks anymore

 

Monks are too Friary

 

Mary Hopkins put her slippers on and

Whispered to Mao Zedong – put your

Hand in here and start a re...

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December 2022 Collage Poem: The Eternal Caretaker

Black Hole grapples with frustration

Human kindness comes calling

As poverty whips our feet from underneath us

 

And now I say is the winter of our discontent

In unravelled disarticulated bones

 

Put on your slippers and kill

Spray squidgy on me not acid and I

Shall love you forever bubbles and all.

 

Go forward to the front

With Motherland yellow sunflower sli...

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