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Artificial Sweetheart

I grew up in secret, so no one noticed Even now I’m in a mist Such earthly delights Enclosed in my fist Artificial sweetheart My temporary muse I could do anything with you And never feel real I see what’s going on out there Walls close in, I don’t care She’ll not get a whiff Of my raging despair Artificial sweetheart Most beautified deceiver Can’t even see me drool Pickled in fake forever I…

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Breadhead

What’s worse than a breadhead Stumbling down the stairs? You’re a breadhead, baby A breadhead, y’ hear, it’s said Look it up – and learn the cause For my disdain You’re a breadhead baby, in a comfort zone A safe landing masquerading as home Pyramid eye and the scheme Sucking up trinkets in your mind Breadheads dream of dough Fluffing their pillows, beware: Breadheads congregate, braining the…

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Red Hot Steam

Red steaming hot face Boiling red swirl inside a head My, how it’s heating Beyond memories of tomorrow As long as the doorpost holds me I will stand As long as the floor moulds me I will sit Now the tube warm flush Flares up the lift shaft It’s like central heating And you go rushing by Hot on the heels of patience You toss me a coin Hubbie’s waiting for you outside Your car will go flying by As…

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Silvertown Cradle

Two sad eyes are watching me The light of this candle gives out What more will you take Than a handful of dirt and a heapful of hate? In your Silvertown cradle, who calls the shots? In your Silvertown cradle, who’ll stop the rots? Here they are, just like they were The swamp hands won’t let me go In these wastelands of my past You get insults instead of love In your Silvertown cradle, who calls…

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True Loves

True loves stay together Light the day and walk forever True loves stay together Fight the way and shake the tether Please let love decree There’s to be no never never Please let love decree That its bonds you’ll never sever When our time is free The milk of us will never sour When our time is free Happy, so happy, we’ll live our hour There’s no such thing as variety There’s only one love to find…

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Heading Out

A dewy dawn in springWinter’s heart on the rock has foundered …Awake! For all of nature’s promiseIs still unbroken All the joys it now bringsbead the cobwebbed dream outspoken I’m going to go outI don’t know whyBut fortune is mine to eatAll across that moonAnd all, all across me Thinking without realisingI’ve been dreaming And now it’s gonna happenFor free! . . .Tomorrow, crawl along the…

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Piece to Piece

Piece by piecethe world picks at my heartLimb from limbthey tear me apart Ashes to ashesthe building falls to earthPlain to seemy secret fear of death Erase an angel’s type of dyeschool me to pass byLet me in on a secret perspireand split the ball needing time Brick by brickleads the road through my heartOut on a limbthat drives us both apart Dust to dustthe rubble forms a wifeThat you can…

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Black Cat Blues

I found a ropeWhat shall I catch?Along the white line, in the middle of the roadA lasso to hunt up a match I stumbled on a dying catStretched out glistening, oily blackTorn down my side, I bend downHear the hum of life, soft departing cracks . . . Fall into you, fly into meHow can we be where we are?Fly with you, feel with meHow come we are what we see? Yearning, and pulling me overLike a hair…

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Inside You

Inside youI see myself, yes I doWe got an awful lot we shareDays without you I cannot bear Sometimeswell, life it gets me downAs long as you’re here aliveI don’t count the days going by Just this dayyou’ve gone right out of townBut you’ll be back to hear me say“Kiss my lips, don’t make a sound” I just love itWhen you smile your smileTakes the words right out of my mouthAin’t this what life’s…

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Face to Face

In the darkest vanity you see yourselfClutched up and anxiousThough you slept beforeYou couldn’t notice what you were shownStruggling to breathe before you were born The colours wash up your riverSweeping out your inner messFace to face I see youIn the starlight heavenShuddering, silently intentA world full of fabulousness Wow, what we’re looking atHas beaten us calmly to restYour eyes twinkle…

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My Ageless Wonderfriend

In all the vastness of this worldAnd the terrifying expanse of timeWill there be one, how could there beTo live and marvel and let it be?Yet sincere belief has made it soEternity has you in an envelope:Out of all time, charmed in wizardryProve my existence in this world Raise me, childRaise me to the Saviour of your graceSay where I could be your playthingAnd hold me in the pureness of intent I…

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The Outdoor Room

We were terrified in a large outdoor roomRunning with chaos and distractionCold and hot and wet and lowTo hide we could not fit behind the treeAs the leaves they dropped to melt like acid Our hearts went pounding through our headsA screeching howl from deepest earthA signal came flashing in our eyesAll was over and lost The voices stemmed from an early ageWere they easy to keep track ofDripped…

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Conversations with Anaїs Nin

Conversations with Anaїs Nin

I was waking up and rising gently to the surfaceThanks to you, subconscious guru, my sudden loss of energy gave meA shadowplay on the radio – some said it was the Silver GuruIn the Bengal hills, the old black pit having opened its arms againShowing that power would soon seep from the CompanyAnd the British Army and last days of the Raj, provoking fear in the infantryThat it marked the threat of…

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The Children Are Watching

The Children Are Watching

Letter to an MP:“You are a cruel person, whose views should be disregarded.You wish harm to humanity.” It is your duty to go shopping, or so I was toldIt is your duty to the future . . .And so I did as I was told.Though I hadn’t any moneyI had to find a way of scamming some:Permission to live in a worldThat did not want what I had to say The children are watching, not far off in the…

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The Great Big Sell-off

The Great Big Sell-off

Losing weight so we can go shopping again . . . NARRATORCome on a spree with me, in the shopping sanctuaryWe’ll buy what no one needsEvery pound we’ve not got, we’ll spend on luxuriesAnd shitty deals to shut us up CHORUSIn the Great Big Sell-off In the stink of afternoon, a baboon in his steel boxOffers to break my fingers off, as I curse him as I cross ~He works for the masters of…

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The Drones Are Coming

The Drones Are Coming

Coming soon to a street near you . . .Here they come, sweeping the airThe drones have got round to our areaWhile you were sleeping or watching pornThe last to be informedSinging, “Give it to me, give it to me / It’s mine, I want it!”Well, you know what?The drones have come to our part of townSqueezing up fences, breaking us downWeaving webs around our familyWatchful eyes far away We are to be…

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The Hunt

So you chased me downTill you saw me bleedThe good things I saidWere left unfound My creative visionsWill last a lifetimeI’ve begun a map of the swampI’ve climbed trees in disbelief The harder it getsBarbed wire bibleMachine men like to think they dreamGhost-copied souls, as required It’s not clear they want youBut they will chase you downTill they see you bleedThe hunt is coming…

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