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Under cover of the night
Shufflings in the shrubbery,
leapings on the lawn,
furtive assignations and who knows what skullduggery,
surreptitious shadow shapes, sundown to dawn.
It’s my own familiar garden but it happens out of sight:
it’s all undercover
…under cover of the night.
Nighttime was a blank space, destitute of life,
a time I’d stop the clock and quit the world.
But then I bought a...
Thursday 4th May 2023 12:02 pm
Sunset on sleaze
If Elvis could of only seen you all -
dancing like peacocks, you're most profound
birds of paradise, extravagant and tall.
Discotheque platforms and ballroom blitz,
topping the charts way back in the seventies,
with pouts and glitz.
Aces up your sleeves,
while some of you later became sex romantics,
sluts and glamour queens -rock gypsy drag,
as you drew heavily on that f...
Wednesday 9th December 2015 5:56 pm
My Nan sleeps with Brian Jones
‘Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep
He hath awakened from the dream of life’
Jagger tugs weeds, rakes a bed
of graveyard shale,
drags a copper wire brush
through moss lumps
gathered by the guest book
and its dew dribbled plastic bag -
there to keep the water out.
He pulls cart-wheeling cellophane
from his shin,
paints a black shadow across the ultimate ...
Friday 1st October 2010 9:45 pm
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