Antony Glaser

Avril how long can we take this scenery?
rolling pebbles down the hill
cannot banish the streets
where our mannequin existence resided.
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Its eternally 4.A.M and the rain is on,
it keeps rolling from the eastern hills
via an unknown circumnavigation.
Having barricaded the Angels
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hoarding shops on the isle of ridiculousness
the feral pigeons pontificate
the leaking roof of the civic theatre stays
you've seen better days
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They want a pigeon for a dodo
its the best they can do
gene editing reverberted
a theoretical DNA sideshow
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Acorns fallow
where do squirrels feed
Snowdrops late this year
The seasons awry
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Im 60 now

and my sister says
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I have been sold plastic gold twinklets
by Bedouin children at Beersheba

I have collected eggs from squawking hens
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At 60 you hope for another school reunion
of your compatriots'
After all this was your first corporate flagship
(Blazers and satchels)
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How do I compare to thee

Your instranscience knows no bounds
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There is always the earth
making its treats
The splendour that rises
spreading all around
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Night time disappears
The battle stroke commences
Lazy seagulls hunger for ice cream
inside a celluloid picture show,
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Troubadours sing their hearts out
Surround me evermore.
Spirits caught in castled ruins.
Frangipani wait to hark.
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White knuckle fare
must be taller than yesterday
You've got a then vice of a rattlesnake
Destroy, destroy
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Im my room
there are relics of albums
from 1974
encapsulating bedsitter land
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Got the 70s in my minds eye
its not foggy in recall
Bereft of 11 plus
because my Father thought Id fail
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The couch grass has withered
for winters change
I make no apology
Milkwood so loftily summoned
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Plastic Alice through the looking glass
I espy her
in yellow pattern dress
set her free
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Full of looming fruit
The black wind whispers
the children lived blithely
yonder in blue cave
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The enormity of trepidation
The scrawny brilliant Sun
laden with apple plumes
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You invited me in
discreetly laughing at moi
you gave me champagne but no words
blindfolded I feel behind
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