Mother Said Keep It Simple

Two Handprints On The Window
Are The Makings On The Floor Before The Cleaning In Spring
And A Maid In The Living Room

Alone Go Down And Come Low
Rising Twice Or Whenever By Pull Off Our Apron Strings
And A Cook In The Kitchen

Tuck It Away Under The Pillow,
Outside Someone's Shouting Nightcalls Don't Mean Anything
And Who In The Bedroom?

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I'll Even Wash The Sheets

Can You Pretend We've Been Up All Night
Teasing Out Children

Go Take Your Meetings In Hallways
And Joke You Don't Need To Wash Your Teeth For That
For You Like To Think Of Your Friends

Speaking Of You
Even When You Are Not Around

CK

Your Name Doesn't Rhyme With Anything

'What, You're A Disaster?

You're A Beautiful Disaster'

Overhear And Cringe On The Stairs

But Fuck It, We Are All In Love

It's Afters After Afters

Call 4/4 Blood Letting

Remember That She's Letting 

Him Sing It Over Her Rented Piano

Reclaim And Rename In A Month

And Forget We're Forgetting

He Wrote That For You

You Are Her And Her's Her

If Names Embarrassed Zara And Tara

Over His Dirty Fingernails And Keys

We'd Prefer To Be Left Out Too

CK

It's Warm In June

Can We Break More Than Cups
Or Will I Put My Shoes Back On'
And His Slowpoke Is Long Gone
Seeing All But The Warm-ups

'I Am Looking For A Spoon
With A Bit Of Flavour On It'
And Empty Bottles Of Spit
Do Dry Up Faster In June

'Who Knows How You'll Feel
When All Is Sad And Done'
Between None And A Loved One
She Only Undresses Un-Reel

CK

Fragment #57

Ariadne
A Whole Line To Yourself
Are You Not Happy

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Travel-Sick

We Are A Proper Bonfire
All Burnt Hair And Coughing
Drops Of Toothpaste On The Sink

Sparking Off Barbed-Wire
To The Small Circles Watching,
Entering Small Hours Between Drinks

Bathroom Bins And Tyres
And The Lynx Cans Are Popping
Lung Cancer And This Might Have A Link

CK

Fragment #56

I Hear Myself
Drinking Through The Floorboards
Asking For A Mop

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Two In Five

I Said Goodbye With A Toothbrush In My Mouth
Again Cleaning
When The Taxi Pulled Off

Last Nite, Tears In The Kitchen With A Friend  
Courting The Same House
In A Different Bed

Feeling Bruises On Hips, I Turn Top And Muted
Minds And Cries
By Just Keeping The Kissing Up

Rubber Snap And It's Near Over A Half Hour Later
Heard Downstairs And Over Radio
By Couch Couples

Then A Few Hours Of Sleep Bottom To Top Lip
I Find Underwear
Under Sheets And Methanol Tongue

Now Worry About Dual Citizens Seeing It Empty
Wishing She Would Salt The Earth
And Take To The Water

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Death Grips

Granny Hears Voices
Whisper Crimson Cunts
In Stale Light
Saying Words That Don't Mean
What They Mean
And The Lads Fucked Up Her House
Because They Could.
I Had More Than One Book Read
While I Cleaned
And Then I Found God.
He Was In The Attic.

CK