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Dominant Scrawling

 

Clog clog clogging up, dominant scrawling,

tongues foreshortened every morning;

careless fingers play with qwerty,

shirking beauty, empty

endless asphalt roads to                                                         

 

wag wag wagging tales of water;

heartsink warning, minds in mourning,

words unversed in seventeen lines;

crumbled poesy, boundless

flimsy strings of

 

cc semen

me me mewing

more boar boring

ceaseless spewing

climbing clawing coveted summit

planting flags on a pyramid of shit

you won

you won

an imaginary war

with a poverty of verse and a

 

clog clog clogging up, dominant scrawling,

tongues foreshorten every morning;

careless fingers play with qwerty,

shirking beauty,

 

empty.

 

 

 

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Wed 28th Oct 2015 20:38

I KNEW I'd seen it somewhere! Thanks. Great usage.

Lan

Wed 28th Oct 2015 10:23

Love this Laura! Would love to see you perform it x

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Laura Taylor

Wed 28th Oct 2015 10:16

Thank you very much one and all.

Cynthia - it's qwerty - look at your keyboard, top left row. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY. Glad you find it interesting :)

Hehe Stu ;)

Cheers Ray and Lynn :)

Lynn Hamilton

Tue 27th Oct 2015 20:54

Hi Laura

Enjoyed this and especially the line 'careless fingers play with Qwerty'. My clogs are sparking.

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raypool

Tue 27th Oct 2015 19:40

Very clever idea to put poetry in its place and at the same time display a mastery of the art of it ! I would agree that as with photography I believe, sometimes an experience in the raw can be experimented with in a self indulgent way. But wot the hell, it ain't rocket science - or is it? The log man.

very impressive.

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Stu Buck

Tue 27th Oct 2015 19:00

cc semen

me me mewing

more boar boring

ceaseless spewing


that is fabulous.

and i agree completely.

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Tue 27th Oct 2015 17:27

Very interesting - very. Full of references I'm only guessing at, but still being influenced by. What's a 'querty'?

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Laura Taylor

Tue 27th Oct 2015 16:01

Many thanks chaps :)

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Tue 27th Oct 2015 15:11

tick tock look at my socks I take my shoes off to you Laura.
I keep coming back to it to read again and don't know why-except for the fact that I like it.

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Graham Sherwood

Tue 27th Oct 2015 13:35

I can hear you shouting this! How do you write stuff like this. Well done you. Love V3.

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