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Where I come from, that’s a pound or two, / tie it to a balloon and let it loose or it’ll smother you, / Clean your ears, tie up your shoes, I guess it’ll be a trick to lie in the deep and murk…
Soap bubble eyes disguising the knives / Forks and spoons until drained away leaving a stain, / Greasy rim keeps it’s posture, and arrogant colour, whilst diluted, reclusive, retreats down the d…
Don’t skim a stone across my surface now, I’ve spent my life becoming still. My cries for help are subtle, too insecure to let myself appear self-conscious, mutter no words of me please, I feel…
A million beasts dissolve in to darkness as I sit and swill my blood, with contemplative expressions, a harp for a heart, each tender pluck a different sound. … I li…
I wrote something down the other day, on the back of a bit of note paper, or a receipt, I don’t remember, but it was good and I lost it, it was good, the words made sense, but I lost it… / And now…
Snail shells run amok with pebbles blazed and lifeless. Grassy stubs stretch for the sky, pointlessly; they are bound forever to their roots, and will feed the roots of the immature in time. Scattered…