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gsk commented on the post, credibility 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Transformation is easier when you’ve been caught
With the ice cube stuck in your throat
If you can hold your breath long enough for the heat of your throat
To melt the ice cube, there’s no worry of suffication
The ice cube credibility test -
gsk commented on the post, creature 1 month ago
Back of the mind
a sign of things to come
the sun and moon
a boom and a bang
that rang around the stars
bars and prison walls
scores of handcuffs
roughs up the wrists
takes the piss, the fukcing sh-it
sees fit to smother me
cover me in a mass of reptiles
piles of insects
perplex me with my own choices
no natural selection, just a rejection
of what is said, done, undone, left for
dead -
gsk commented on the post, knock 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Empathy is a soft sword
a knock on jelly
a whispered, whimsical word
the butter on belly -
gsk commented on the post, leathery 2 months, 4 weeks ago
You could see the fork, the scales, the eyes
Pressed across the ankle, wrapped around the shin
Tightening, pinching the calf
It even twisted his strut
As if the animal soul in the soles took possession
Of gait and the centre of gravity
Now a coiled muscle, ready to turn heads -
gsk commented on the post, sanctity 3 months ago
The box, a dry, wooden cube
with missing knots and rust spreading screws
was left behind, in the plastic shed at the end of the garden
that had become a maze of weeds and broken branchesA boy, no more than 5, roams the new wasteland,
his twitching fingers and wandering eyes, spy
the shed, then the box, then the truth -
gsk commented on the post, flat 3 months, 1 week ago
Mr Flat
Mr Flat lived in a flat town
He wore a flat cap
He always sung flat
He never went flat out for anything
His mortgage was on a flat rate
His jokes always fell flat
His beer was always flat
His batteries were frequently flat
The a in his name is flat
Every penultimate day of every month, he was flat broke
His spare tired, whenever he needed it, was flat
And the concrete was ever so flat and hard and flat and cold and flat and waiting and flat and waiting
to flatten Mr Flat out
when he had had enough of living
in his one bedroom flat -
gsk commented on the post, murder 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Shelve the tip of the nail
The snake venom, the clenched fang
Gummy tooth against glass beaker
Seeking the best taste from the worst liquid -
gsk commented on the post, visitor 3 months, 3 weeks ago
I saw his hand come through the gap
the window had been left
Wide open to the wind, its wail
its coat hugging breath -
gsk commented on the post, speak 3 months, 3 weeks ago
At
He spoke at, not to
He laughed at, not with
He smiled at, not to
He kicked at, not to
He spat at, not passed
He looked through, not at -
gsk commented on the post, sound 4 months ago
Nothing in his freekick life prepared him
For the penalties whistle, piercing the air
And the drum, until all that was left was skin
Loose and waving in the hot air -
gsk commented on the post, promise 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The molten pavement, warped by grit and gravity
Played a simon-says game with each passer by
Daring them to walk on its cracks -
gsk commented on the post, lord 4 months, 2 weeks ago
call me down
A swan in a levee
The webbed feet a broken rudder
In the turning tide of man -
gsk commented on the post, barrel 4 months, 3 weeks ago
down the barrel
In a barrel
Around the barrel
Within the barrel
Through the barrel -
gsk commented on the post, sure 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The path, pristine, palatable to hard-toed tourists
With cameras coiled around their necks
The snap-flash a scar to remember
The sure-footed goats, steady as gargoyles
Sculpted across the hill side
Beady eyed and balanced
Waiting for the waterfall to wash
away the rest -
gsk commented on the post, procedure 4 months, 4 weeks ago
the soap in the dish
The payoff and the risk
The procedure and the gift
The calm and the fit -
gsk commented on the post, actual 5 months ago
this is what I expected
I envisioned a wall, brick and mortar
The sort to could spend a lifetime climbing
Instead, in actuality, the wall was all
Not to defeat, but to kiss, grind against
And repeat -
gsk commented on the post, presented 5 months, 1 week ago
An egg, a simple gift
A sphere made to imperfection
Placed in the warmth of the nest
Where twigs will act as house
Where worms will be a banquet
And the wind will be music, movement
And method by which the word is spread -
gsk commented on the post, methods 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Slapsies
One hand over the other
Two beats beating down
We stare through squinted eyes
While neck hairs heighten, tighten
The corners of mouths curlWe moved on from peek-a-boo
Aeroplaned food and raspberries
on twitching tummiesShe wants the slap-sonic
that comes from reactions
imposed and delayed
The interplay of pain
And game scores smilesFrom the sting of love
On her hand, half
the size mine -
gsk commented on the post, both 5 months, 2 weeks ago
this break in battles
This settling of the seige
This turning of the turmoil
It is christmas, we are a stand still -
gsk commented on the post, himself 5 months, 3 weeks ago
he only held his own hands scrossing the door
Imagined the overgrown nails, yellow from playing in sand
Was from nicotine, his breath, sweet and mosit
Loosened with vodka and red bull
The graze on his cheek from falling off his bike
A punishment for faiilure, so he could watch
And wait to make up, be heard when he asked for forgiveness - Load More
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