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the poet dies

My beautiful Grandson

Yeh.

I am dying

And like, wat?

Treasure these days

Wat mate?

These days of mammalian hills

These days of beauty and wonder

Yeh?

Treasure them. Never let them go.

Rite.

Before the shapeless weight of time

Presses upon your chest

You wat?

Before the sultry whispers of eternity

Kiss your soul with kindness

Mate. I don’t know wat you is on about?

You know something

Before my complexion became sandblasted

Through years of living

I used to look like you

Innit?

Yes. It is

All buff and ting?

Your Grandmother thought so...

Don’t remember her mate.

Neither do I...

Rite...

Sometimes I just want to scream at you

That is rude mate.

You wont think so when you are my age

I dunno...

So much waste

Oscar wild was right

Oscar who mate?

Make me proud

I have to go yeh. My mate, like...

Go my boy. But remember

Never stop loving

Never stop giving

Be good

Look after your mum

I love you

I love you too innit.

◄ wings

fun house ►

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Stu Buck

Fri 28th Aug 2015 20:02

ray - i needed a blurb to put on the front page of my book. I'm definitely using 'keeps squeezing out like toothpaste on to the page and cleans the soul as it goes'. its such a brilliant compliment i went to tell my wife. really glad you liked it. your poems are now routinely fantastic so all heartfelt praise is welcomed like a stray cat.

(we love cats by the way)

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raypool

Fri 28th Aug 2015 19:58

fantastic - keeps squeezing out like toothpaste on to the page and cleans the soul as it goes. So very personal and powerful I love it!. Great stuff.

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Stu Buck

Fri 28th Aug 2015 16:30

glad you enjoyed it anyway. i wanted to write something about my dislike of language nowadays and this seemed to fit.

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Stu Buck

Fri 28th Aug 2015 16:29

innit. its a bastardisation of isnt it, although it has now grown to mean 'i agree' and 'honestly'

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Harry O'Neill

Fri 28th Aug 2015 15:37

Good generational mutual misunderstander...emboldenly and normally clear...But I don`t get that `innit`(maybe my age.)

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