we used to walk in the canyon

talk of a future that never came

gasping at the beauty round us

Selina was one hell of a dame

its a movie playing in my head

just pictures without the sound

a neck-lace of images inside a

cold tomb on hallowed ground

called to New York for a movie

turned your head with ambition

left me doubting your standing

fearing you inten...

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if you must touch me, make it brief

I am averse to women with designs

my life wanders its own sweet way,

runs on long-distance parallel lines

avoiding people doesn't come easy

takes a full life-time of deliberation

alone in a cold third-class carriage

that never quite reaches a station

tunnels never ending, dumb that

wild clatter as rolling stock slows,

memo...

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each day the weather changes

clouds or sun or rain in the sky

a kalaidoscope of movements

so easy, why on earth cant I?

there's just the same old cloud

I seem to hold it by some string

it follows me like a stray puppy

in me, cumulo-nimbus is king

I'm caught in a flooded canyon

that black cloud fits like a lid

in my mind is stormy turmoil

dead list of thin...

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years brimmed with men

their feats litter the years

lovers made me cry, life

not whole without tears

sprinkles of teardrop joy

tears of pleasure or woe

better than bland smiles,

tears with no place to go

tears springing universal

weeping tourists glisten

covering a million miles

for a man that will listen

each tear a badge of love

a validation ...

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chalk dust on her hands

game chants in her ears

thirty heads a-bobbing

eagerly innocent dears

think she's like them, no

thoughts but right now,

her minds miles away:

why am I a silly cow?

daily strives to impress

ambitious hectic whirr

one bloke after another

none were right for her

as usual on auto-pilot

teaching maths by rote

kids get on h...

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you have to watch it in here

old blokes get up to all sorts

seem to lose inhibitions and

indulge in odd water sports

dicks emerge like clockwork

just like they're past caring

pyjamas are a good excuse

for opening up and sharing

doesn't shock me anymore

hang there minute and limp

yet one or two can still do it

Patrick's a potent old pimp

its massiv...

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strange things go through my head

my mind has been to distant places

days merge blindly into each other

lately I've lost a memory for faces

just how long have I been in here?

unlike my head my cock still works

wild fears roam like buffalo and yet

in my pants an untamed tiger lurks

the matron omits to cater for that

they seem past it most of my peers

yet my r...

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you needn't be famous

to put down your story

the written word only

enhances your glory

my memoirs are done

inspiration has run dry

only a pile of nibs is left

an ink blot mars my tie

its quite a work of art

though I say so myself

my sober chapters will

enhance many a shelf

its been a strange life

u-turns and blind alleys

an excess of aspirat...

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thorn rose in quicksand

a pale siren lost at sea

gurgling a hymn, that's

what she means to me

she's saying little of late

quieter now than of yore

time's calmed her down

once I called her a whore

came home at all hours

partied till she dropped

spent money like water

manic how she shopped

once a nymphomaniac

in bed she wore me out

I was not t...

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at right angles to beauty,

geometry's not my friend,

full reservoirs of make-up

my proportions won't mend

other girls seem so pretty

my torso's a basket case

lobster nose, carrot hair,

mirrors crack at my face

I dream of drastic surgery

features lissom and new

Romeos on my doorstep

aftershaves in a queue

each day flushed torture

in a self-consc...

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nothing's certain anymore,

I dont know what matters,

confusion paints my head,

my inhibitions lie in tatters

I've found that special one

for whom I'd long yearned

to make up for those times

I'd had my fingers burned

always terrified of women,

felt they were over-sexed,

averse to the physical side,

passion left me perplexed

seemed safer to keep awa...

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hinterlands intact,

forests not a hell,

grass not wheat,

soft cold rain fell

heavens doing what

open clear skies do,

pilgrims of sunlight,

days honestly new

no forever anymore,

now the foe is time,

some end's in sight,

verses don't rhyme

tarnished the sward,

ox-skulls bleaching,

toll paid for a blind,

low, over-reaching

truths die...

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