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Annie and her songs –
Annie and her songs Annie sung ‘The Old Rugged Cross’, Annie sung ‘Amazing Grace’, and maybe, I think, if alive still, looking at me from Tennessee with ‘Down to the River to Pray’ Annie, March 1901, born among others 1910, … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, America, American, beat, black, British Afro-Carrribean, Buffalo New York, Canada, civil rights, equal rights for women, feminism, free verse, freestyle, lost love, memories, poetry, prose, spousal abuse, Toronto, USA, verse, white, women, WW1
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9/11 Poem –
The Beautiful saw a ninth month morning New York, geometric brick-lay and field The Beautiful moved, foot, rail, wing and wheel New Amsterdam, geometric brick-lay and field The Beautiful heard, locked-on thunder New York, geometric brick-lay and field The Beautiful … Continue reading
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Tagged 11/09/2001, 14 years ago, 9/11, America, American, anger, cornfield, Crime, dead, death, fourteen years ago, free verse, freestyle, Hieronymus Bosch, madness, memories, New York, NYC, Pennsylvania, poetry, President of USA, prose, psychology, religion, Shanksville, The Pentagon, Twin Towers, USA, Washington, World Trade Centre, WTC
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The Cult –
Cycling prophet of doom – ‘onwards dear pedals!’ Leaflet throwing in the wind, hitting faces with graphic love, need 10% return on printing investment, will have own cult Munitions build-up, more professional than ‘Preppers’, those backwoodsmen, quacks with inexactitude and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, Armageddon, crazy, crazy men, cults, madness, poetry, preppers, prose, USA
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The Patriot –
Star spangled mess – ‘Say that again mother-fucker!’ Trans-Continental, lay on top of Chinese, Irish, and the rest, cutting down rocks, blowing up trees, throwing stones at Indians. Drunken hieroglyphic language barriers, no one listened to other man talking, got … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, America, American, American Dream, Bill of Rights, freedom, freestyle, Howard Stern, immigrants to USA, Jackson Pollock, JFK, Liberty, Lincoln, New Europe, Old Europe, patriotism, poetry, President of USA, prose, Ronald Reagan, Star Spangled Banner, Transcontinental Rail-road, Ulysses S Grant, US Constitution, USA
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Oedipus back-to-front –
Stinging eyes; got salt-water eye-lashings from visions of wet DNA on rocks after half-past naked surfing in a jellyfish sea, then, a cantilever arms and ankle grinding march – ‘Away! monotony of Atlas form!’ Too late, sand-mounds gather and lump, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, Beach Boys summer, crazy men, crazy women, Greek Mythology, killer, killing, kith and kin, Life, madness, ocean, Oedipus complex, poetry, power, prose, psychology, sea, surfing, USA, Writing
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The Jolly Roger –
A black cat and a white dog, a multi-coloured parrot grabs my shoulder, whispers from its hook ‘that flag needs work.’ Black-beard and Bluebeard press-ganged me, never a sailor, never a crow’s nest climber, can’t swim either. Rigging and rope … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, capitalism, Clinton, Cuba, jolly roger, piracy, pirates, poetry, prose, psychology, sail-ships, sailing, sea, tobacco, trade, trade war, USA, War
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Saving the Planet with a Pack of Wolves –
Ate a butterfly to save the Planet, its colourful 3-D wingspan took a lot of looking after, humanity given grace and favour when it rested like strange powdered dust between two slices of bread. Energy in ‘Project Action’, and rifle-ready, … Continue reading
Monkey Business –
Bought a monkey from a Man, his Christian name went by me, going to suppose he follows the Cross. Hamilton the Gangster, there it was, not very straight scar lines across his Back – “Hamilton”; it strayed off that page … Continue reading
Gay Texas Bikers
Perhaps so, all a lie, we saw what they saw when they knew something else. Big beards, sheet-metal shaped motorbikes, male-only dance routines in full swing around the Mall fountain. Two men, their rivalry left behind in sweet-water, denim men leaving … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American, American Biker Gangs, Banditos, Biker Gangs, Cossacks, Gay, hells angels, LGBT, poetry, prose, Texas, USA
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The wife beater’s defence –
She had a good read from Eric Fromm after a good beating from Mike. Eric knew Mike’s mind, and Mike knew all 7/11 opening hours were a conspiracy against midnight thirsts, obviously. The Marquis de Sade invented ‘Sadism’, Eric knew … Continue reading
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