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Fearful?
In olden times great monsters roamed
Spirits and devils hid behind each door
Superstition governed fearful peasants
Subsisting uneducated naive and poor
Centuries on and we have progressed
Affluence burnished the common weal
Giants and dragons imagined no longer
For today's modern monsters are real
Frankensteins stride brazen and free
No wonder in our hearts we...
Saturday 3rd October 2020 11:04 am
Heart Of Stone
Heart Of Stone
Medusa couldn’t get a boy
No matter how she tried
She had a go at on-line dating
But on her profile she lied
She was hoping for some desperate lad
Looking for a bride
But when she posted pictures
They would run away and hide
She spends many an hour
Teasing and straightening her snakes
And applying subtle make-up
To up the beauty stakes
...Friday 15th May 2020 2:52 pm
Metropolis
Somewhere, the 9 till 5 office worker stops me with a deadpan stare,
Fixes me with the times of timetables passed, the graph paper squares
Of tomorrow’s schedule. The high-rise offices never bother to look down.
I never liked the city.
Never really cared
for the city’s callousness, its daily suicide,
the shadow at the top of each building that watches with certainty.
C...
Tuesday 31st January 2012 9:14 am
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