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June 2023 Collage Poem - Kidnapped and Held

And Arkansas brought dentistry

to Catherine the Great, by way

of a heroin overdose

 

When pa was a dentist ma was music

promised and forlorn

a phantom takes an Uber to the

sun... it's got to be done.

 

Without a bitch he had a brew

 

Best was over the moon

but flew too close to the sun

The Titan tourist board say

'Don't come here!'

 

In the park, wit...

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June 2022 Collage Poem: Lost Technologies

Bloodstains on blackboard tick

Down the panicked time

Spontaneous children calling

As a tragic register is taken

Drinking champagne from

Cups for Italian kings

 

In Sandringham the Queen’s bedside lamp blew

While in the Mariana trench deep down

Harry the Angler fish muttered a frantic phew!

As his lamp came on and he thought fuck it!

Time to go to town!

 

So ...

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June 2021 Collage Poem: The Other Me

 

Lonely windows for the imaginary friend

The unicorn lost his way with the geography teacher

 

One mind with but two disparate thoughts.

Imaginary friends have feelings too.

 

I only exist when you think about me

What was it the geography teacher did?

 

A true friend knows life returns

Am I real or a figment of my imagination?

 

Ming vase found the small way...

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June Collage Poem: Haunted by Chicken Pie

He did not know there was no chicken pie left
Listen, hear and act
This would make an interesting composite poem.


New perspectives on Andy M
token messages carried across the breeze by a kite 
we are all somebody, 
an infinite possibility of celestial irony
along the pavement to the pinned snake
scattered pebbles of poetic mystery


Hope Andy M hasn't been whisked away on a kite!!!

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