David Keig Poems

In the night I’d swear you’d kissed me
And told you how much you’d missed me
As you lay beside me sleeping in the night.
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Tear away my punctuation
Slowly remove my capitals
Indulge in wanton abbreviation
Then what is left is all
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I looked and saw a bloody stain as if it came from me
It was thick and red and seemed to ooze out from my own belly
Then another spot upon one leg and another on my chest
I was climbing up a stairway and just couldn’t find my breath
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Politics i understand
Someone once said to me
Its really not that complex
Its really quite easy
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Men are not efficient
They slow and ponderous too
They fail to wash the dishes
And make 'sprinkles' in the loo
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The people standing all around
That slight limp body on the ground.

It shouldn’t be allowed you know
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i grow old, i grow old
i shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled
and steal from TS Eliot
thinking no-one knows
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Nobody told me that this mist
That came into my life
Would stay around so many years
No matter how hard it was I tried
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There are two Australian fences I'd like to talk about
One runs from the north down to the south to keep the rabbits out
The other is invisible - it's in Australian's minds
It’s a blinkered view of what it is to be part of humankind.
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What on earth do you call a collection of poets?
A verse a rhyme a stanza or sonnets?

Perhaps it is best not to seek out this noun
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