Bad Poem Daze
Sleep walking towards
Another narcoleptic day
Given free change
For free coffee
To stay awake
On time for life
But out of step
On time for life
But out of step
The rhythm
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Matter
Where is the fact from the ficition?
The fiction from the fact?
Does it matter if I exact, my P's and Q's?
Does it matter that?
Tomorrow I may tell you I love you
And then talk about that,
And how the weather decides to hate you
And me, now that's a fact!
Who cares if tongues that are free to silence
Talk violence?
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The Woman With Too Many Teeth
The woman with too many teeth was accused of 'smiling too much'
In the office, on the phone
Even when she was on her own [as seen by cctv! ]
The woman with too many teeth would always hesitate and was
Losing weight,
And some got a hunch, that she could not eat her lunch
The woman with too many teeth could barely talk
She also had a funny walk
Due in part to her heavy jaw
She kept her head to the floor
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Bunny Is Missin
Bunny is missing
She is out to feed her flock
To save her kittens
But she aint young anymore
And love aint what she's lookin for
A warm bed and a light
Some where to sleep at night
But bunny has been missing too long
After her first trip
The light flickered
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A monologue on 'nothing in particular
Well you know,
It always begins like this
'The day starts'
Half an hour early for me
Clocks set hour an hour early
The day begins
Well morning starts
With a break of sunlight
Flooding through the cracks
In the blinds
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Luggage
my luggage
A list of identifiable items,
After the long haul
The journey is a year, an hour, a day a month,
In a minute things will change!
That's what we all say
Hope for, something?
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Nobody Sings
Nobody sings.........
And goes largely unnoticed in a crowd
He doesn't crave affection, attention
Fame or celebrity
He is proud of his roots, of being 'a nobody'
It means he is free
To live simply
quietly and be,
Himself
Most importantly
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Forgetting YOU
Forgetting you, was not easy
It kept me up all night
And I was trying to write a list
Of easy to forget things
Your nose was too big to forget
It often got stuck in the door
Or got mistaken for a clothes hook
Your eyes were the size of two small currants
Your face as white and as plump as a bun
Your lips slid sideways like a slit in paper
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The song of a pathological liar
I am four foot three ....not really
I am a vegetarian pacifist
Not really
I am a capricorn
Not really
I don't believe in the 'stars'
I was born on a mars bar
I feel only with my hands
Not really, , , , very well
I am from a large cable tossing clan
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Song Of The Egg
One sunny morning in late june
I heard a strange and mournful tune
I looked around the empty room
And stood awhile feeling bemused
A strange hallucination came
Was it a dimming in the brain?
But louder still the cries were coming
Like a distant droning humming
And then I saw the egg box open
Inside a weeping egg was broken
'oh take me to the boiling pot, or fry me quick, or scramble me,
come quick and cook me, set me free!
The unbroken eggs were strangely silent
Being advocates of violence
Rounded on the broken egg
'Oh take him quick and smash his head! '
Unable to fulfil his wish
The portly consumer changed his dish
Leaving the eggs inside the box
He had some fish
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