Posing

Were The Lights Too Low Or Did You Want To See?

'Was That As Good For You As It Was For Me?'

Well That's The BCG I Was Born With

But I Swear Its Still Sore

'Was That The Spot Or Did Cosmo Plant The Myth

Just To Settle The Score?'

This Moon Shaped Mark Is From An Air Gun

Shot By My Brother's Platoon

Mother Told Me It Would Heal In A Week

'Can I Ask Have If You Ever Faked One

Or Is It All Too Soon?'

No, Just Shut Up And Go To Sleep

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Purple Is My Colour

She's With All The Shared Bunks And
They Say Right Now There's 400
But That's A Lie
And Bumps Her Feet To And From The Sky

And She's Been In All Their Shared Shirts
That Went Fitch To Chanel To Klein
In Folded Cupboards
And Sunday Man Has Probably Worn Worse Than An Ex's-Cords

And She's All Wasted And Won
For Other Girls Are Still Lost
In All The WeekLove
But Still Not Wanting To End It In Love,

She Left To Go To Work Early At The Risk Of Repeating Herself.

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I Got Accepted Into Coppers

Fucking Overgrown Sixteen Year Olds
Or Does That Come Too Soon, Sore And Close To The Bone
Passing Out As A Pavement Maud Gonne In Her Breaking Summer Months

While Out Of Context Northern 'Situation's
Leads To Insulting Countys With No Need Asking Where One Hales
A Blackman's Taxi Home Shouting 'I Wish I Hadn't To Repeat My Leaving Too'

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Stop-Gap

Kissing Couples At The Bus Stop
Ask Each Other To Forget Me Like I Was Never There
And Me And A German Overhear

Four Of Us Are Waiting On The 11
And Its 3rd On The Board And One Of The Night's Last
And The Other Two Break The Two

But Before That Her Cheeks Shine
So I Guess There's Some Confusion Over Her Chapters
And His Footnotes, Its Resolved Now

Of Course He'd Be First To Leave
And Her Silent Shakes Make Me And The That German
Exchange Glances But We Don't.

The 13 Takes Her Home To Mammy
And Out Of Their Awkwardness, I Am Pushed To Ask
'My Name Is Ester, Nice To Meet You'

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Archive: II

                                    II

A Man In A White Transporter Van Sneezes
And Doesn't Crash
Yet Someone Is Flashing These Buildings
Blue And Blue
And Junkies And Junkies Piss Street Corners
And Drink Jerrycans
And The Old Homeless Pole From Poland
Is Gone Home
The Rest Of Us Are Being Featured In Some
Spanish Kid's Photo
So I'm Going Under The Arches And Going Over
Twelve Cent Bridges

To The Spire That Gets Way Too Big
During The Nightime
So I'll Look Down To The Student Rivers
Of Crushed Milk
Until Outside The Church Somewhere Between
Work And Home
You Know I Ain't Seen A Single Old Lady's Walk
Through Them Doors
Then Again I Never Had Time To Follow
God Nor Them
I Walk On For The Scaffolding About The Steeple
Is Falling Down

There Might Be Too Many Thistles And Yokes And Thistles In My Salad

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The State Of Her

Christy Banged On About It
On A Half Done Patio In Kildare
Under The Same Misused Late Fall Sun
From That One Night Gig In Old El Salvador

Take Off The Lockets
For You'd Think You Wouldn't Want To Be Found
Take Off The Lockets
Because I Know Sure, I've Watched A Documentary On It

She's Crosses On Rocks And Blown Streetlights
But There's Not Enough Spray Or Time
So We Have Been Renting Out The
Chains About Tan Line Necks

Take Off The Lockets
Sure You'd Never Know Where Your Father Be Digging
Take Off The Lockets
Though Her Mother Paid the Extra Bit For Her Middle Name

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Fragment #55

I Kept Two Slices
Of Pizza For You Not Him
He Best Eat The Crust

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Rearview

When I Was Young
There Was A Bump
A Man Saw Me Do It
And He Drove On

In Fast Forward
Playing On Its Back
Jabbing At Strings
That May Have Been There

One Second Carried On
Just Out Of Badness
But I Ditched The Car
Safely Into A Gap

The Lack Of Phone Credit
Reminds Me I'm An Adult
And I Poked It Once
So It Would Notice Me

Now Nose Drippings
And A Final Hard Intake
Rules Out A Trip To Town
Or Some Broken Legs

On The Mat Of My Car
I Wonder About Disease
Amongst Other Things
And Tayto Packets

It Was One Of Ten
And All Like Children
And The Others Share
Two Warm Bowls Of Milk

But There's No Answer
Because I Am Six-Two
And She Lives Alone
With Her Nine Cats

And I Still Haven't Told Her

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