(a poem by Graham C Hodgson) Radio For One To Three Words and music, that’s all it is. Hijacked to feed a world At one with division and greed, keeping us up. All night they […]
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Poo Corner – Issue 32
THE THOUGHTFUL MAY FOX I’d rather not imagine this nadir moon where a natural nefariousness is kneeling crawling, skulking and then squawking about an honest brush with opportune when raw red hands are trapped it shrieks til May, then it […]
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SELF-MADE MAN He lived like a suicide but, as luck would have it, he was philosophically opposed to it, so he was kept alive, logically. Theoretical carpenter, he chipped away, unskilled and dully determined he carved an effigy of himself, […]
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ANTHEM FOR THE DOOMED OF ALL AGES The ultimate bore, pointless-22 barrel discharges us in serried ranks we shuffle, studying our shadows for signs of life entrenched in our ruts. We are bright, shiny shells made for war to be […]
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RAINING TONES Rain, falling steadily, like moral and ethical standards in politics and society, adds a dismal greyness in a black and white world wherein Jack is a dull boy having stolen the boots of a contingent, familiar enemy; both […]
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Poo Corner – Issue 25
THE PARSONAGE KNOWS Walking in Charlotte’s imagination, moored to reality watching the sun dandle on Earth’s knee before father’s glowering discipline calls us in. I am a tourist superimposed on the landscape of souls rolling and tumbling, embracing and chastising […]
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FATHER AND SONNET Dad, I imagine your predicament after forty five years I want to rage for your rescue though I’ve no equipment you can use, no air to gasp, just baggage full of instruments of torturous whys and I […]
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More evidence has been unearthed to confirm Jos’s darkest mind, brought on by a revisit to his native New Zealand as special guest of the NZ Poetics and Semantics Association annual award ceremony. a life of abysmal self-deception bling […]
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NO ORDINARY JOE Though travelling strangers I miss him as a familiar even my uncertain step need not faltering for there were no potholes no unevenness Now that the path has come to a physical end we light upon a […]
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