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December 2022 Collage Poem: The Eternal Caretaker

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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 slippers

It’s my birthday, and I’ll wear my

Slippers if I want to.

 

Lighting up another cigarette in

The toilet, celebrating the end of

Another year.

 

 

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Eternal caretakerslippersDecember Collage Poem

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Nigel Astell

Fri 16th Dec 2022 02:55

Chocolate biscuit munching
unwrapped yellow slippers
eight eternal caretaker chairs
no-body left behind
Christmas W.O.L poetry evening
now waits for next year.

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