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SHIT ON YOUR SHOES (a love poem)

 

Written on the back of old bus tickets
Is the poetry of our lovemaking.
Scribbled on the front of my school textbooks
Is the script of my emotions.
I have painted murals on palaces,
Drawn in chalk the epitome of my knowledge
On Sunset Boulevard and Tibetan Mountains.
I have hidden prose for you
On the underneath of snails,
In the bellies of Great white sharks.
Painstakingly unravelled the mummified Kings
And written you a three mile poem,
Minuscule messages on the thread
From a silkworms arse.
My love for you gets everywhere
Just like shit on your shoes.

◄ Damned Chemistry

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Nash

Wed 12th May 2010 19:15

Thanks Chris, don't worry, I'm a big boy now! Cheers

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Nash

Wed 12th May 2010 18:11

Thanks Chris! Extremely thoughtful and helpful.

This is an old performance piece I used to do in a former life as a drunk cabaret act, donned in tux and doused in whiskey, smoking like a trooper and as it happens those lines worked BUT ONLY in that guise. I'll definitely play around with your suggestions.

Thanks again!

Nash

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