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There are times whenopening the Hallmark cardsent no doubt in good faith,the banal cliche of a worn truismexpressed in groansome verseopens one..

As the tapewormsaid to the spaghetti -'Would you run thatpast me again? '

Redheads, with their fiery hairoft have a temper that can scare.Can God and Nature so conspireto scarify with hair and fire?

I’d been reading some poems with– for the first time in my life that I remember –‘a lump in my throat’; and a pricking in my eyes,and a sense of the..

Desperate to get it;usually regret it.

Too young to know the horrors of a war I've fought,too young to know war's fear, or yearn for heroism,but old enough to have lived through;boys but..

0348 Me, Royalty And FameI didn't wave anything at the Queenwhen I saw her leaving an official receptionsitting bolt upright in the car,still, pale..

What in the lovely gaining, loves you?What does the bird that’s flying, bring?What in the lovely gaining, fills you?What does the flying-bird..

Because I love you so,sometimes it's loving someone;sometimes it's loving anyone;sometimes it's loving everyone;sometimes it's loving no-one.How can..

Landing airplanes form a high queue;Busy ants all form a low queue;Salespersons should pretend they like you;But only poets can form a haiku.

They warned me that deafnesswould turn me in on myself,make me suspicious and sour...but since my psycho called me'a bunch of new roses' todayI feel..

War under a summer sunand the soldier’s life now a sleep, beautifulin, we may hope, the angel kissof death, friend of heroic human nature.We who live..

A hard writing I had of it;the words clumsy, the sense banal...escaping from rhyme isn't easy;half a lifetime to work up to itthen like skirt length..

The usual disgusting scene:the sneezes coming one after the otherso no fun enjoying the one;the coughs like an iron file along the lung,coughs that..

The shy young girlcan't hide her shining eyesthis Spring.

Like a set of graded kitchen pansthe newsagent's children,back from school, file into the tiny corner shop,and all so small, this neat, obedient..

When heavy hangs the soul - if soul there bein such a state of abject loneliness -and all Creation's steeped in miseryand all bad influences join..

Mills and Boon, Mills and Boon,ravish me - but not too soon...Boon and Mills, Boon and Mills,steam my specs with bedtime thrills...(M&B ..

Yes, how were they to know,searching in the heat of forenoon dunes,those high hills of sandwhere once the forests grew,now a rhythm of burnt sunned..

I’ve never seen him just like this before.Crouched at the entrance to the largest run,the burrowed-out soil in front of itground to dust by many..

bright banquet-hall in darkest night -swallow flies in, through, out -from where, to where?

everything in Creationis as holy as its Creatorhow could it be otherwise?the cowhas been the centreof the Vedic culturethese last few thousand..

0328 Holy Shitjeez I thought here’sthis lady I have the greatestrespect for and shecomes out with this holy crapand holy shit stuffso yesterday I..

All those 'Sixties hippiesare in their sixties now (..man) -hope they ain't forgottenlife is just a wow (..man) ...

Knock at door.Is this 34c Warren Hastings Court?(Shout from upstairs)Tell him we don’t want no doorsteppers today, Ali.I don’t think you understand..