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Killing Eve - A Villanelle
This nonsense about Killing Eve
Get on with it is what I say
I find it so hard to believe
Perhaps she flatters to deceive
She lives to fight another day
This nonsense about Killing Eve
It is a tangled web they weave
Not black or white but shades of grey
I find it so hard to believe
So surely someone can conceive
A way to bump her off today
This nonsense about Killing Eve
Call m...
Tuesday 7th July 2020 8:06 pm
My Bullet
Forgive me please, my sins, I beg, for I
Am not the glorious hero that they claim;
For I am one who dares to reason why.
They spoke of honour, courage, do-or-die;
They showed me how to shoot, to kill, to maim.
Forgive me please, my sins, I beg, for I
Am no brave lion, no matter how I try.
Returning home I feel somehow to blame,
For I am one who dares to reason why...
Wednesday 26th November 2014 7:36 pm
Reading, Rioting and (A)rithmetic - a villanelle
Iâm interested to know what makes you tick
So tell me what you learned today, my son
Oh reading, rioting and arithmetic
When you go late night shopping with a brick
Can we blame too much drink or too much sun?
Iâm interested to know what makes you tick
Somewhere along the line I missed a trick
So this is all youâve learned â excuse the pun
Just readi...
Thursday 11th August 2011 6:39 pm
Relativity (m.c.escher)
Our eyeless stares, the endless stairs constrain;
Figures of proportional intention,
We blandly trudge from plane to transformed plane.
Warping up and wefting down in vain,
Aching for a canvas of convention,
Our eyeless stares, the endless stairs constrain.
Incidental in some artistâs brain;
Ageing embryos in mock pretension,
We blandly trudge from pl...
Saturday 19th June 2010 6:15 pm
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