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• Wary of War

  By Graham on April 19, 2024 • ( 0 )

  Crippled, drug addled, booze addicted But never mind The real enemies are disintegrating From tons of exploding steel Far far away Yes the homeless are the enemy Of the slithering cash machine They won’t see a nickel But “they” in… Read More ›

• It’s Hot It’s Cold

  By Graham on February 2, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Bitter biting bold gusts pierce the heat and humidity Welcome, it allows me to breath And see clearly Sometimes chilly weather is better For your imagination Than burning brutal heatwaves Get you stuck like Tar to your shoe. And waking… Read More ›

• Old Long

  By Graham on December 29, 2023 • ( 0 )

  It’s just a nothingness sphere Filled in with distorted sepia images Faded and blurred Followed by a roll of thunder Three hundred and sixty five days long Will start with a flash of crystallised diamonds And empty out all the… Read More ›

• They’re Not Mannequins

  By Graham on October 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The sky swung on streams of light and dark Reflected in quickly moving smashed glass Sticking into tumbling tree limbs The rumbling of thunder Blowing up hope. There was no escape. The wild winds whipping through cluttered streets Blowing away… Read More ›

• Battling

  By Graham on June 1, 2022 • ( 2 )

  Decade by decade Decay decay decay Wanting not needing Fighting not reading, Envy, most fingered word In the thesaurus, Omits jealousy, stark difference, Covet thy neighbor’s biodegradable Possessions, As the sun shines on a sandy beach Make your own rules… Read More ›

• Doubt

  By Graham on May 8, 2022 • ( 0 )

  Doubt, is always around me Even that sentence requires me To question what I see Is there another word That can rattle your brain So feverishly, Back and forth. It’s there, doubt, I believe To bring us to the real… Read More ›

• Disposable Outcome

  By Graham on January 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  A line of people waiting to get tested “Losing a day’s wage I am” A line of fighter jets just off the factory line And they discover a fault That will cost millions to fix (Don’t tell the taxpayer) A… Read More ›

• Vow

  By Graham on January 7, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  If I say x And you say y, We’ll never know, How great the world Could be.

• Door to Door

  By Graham on January 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  He is at home Peeping through the curtains Blue light spinning around the walls Of what he called his sitting room Although he had never had one soul come to visit And sit in the sitting room during the twenty… Read More ›

• Flattery

  By Graham on December 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Pinned there bitterly by my rat faced nemesis

  And his po faced beau,

  When his mood was cold and black.

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