Jerry Pike Poems

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31.
Painting By Numbers

Painting By Numbers

Somewhere deep inside me, there's a room called yesterday,
with paint by number figures, lightly pencilled in, in grey.
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32.
Pretend

Looking down, it thought.
Past the body it was responsible for,
one leg raised, kicked out,
moving sharply, by slavish reaction.
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33.
Agay

‘You’ll have to find somebody else now’,
and she spoke to the green in his eyes,
there was nothing from nothing about it,
so the laws of the jungle seemed wise.
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34.
Bracklesham

The sun’s going to sting in a minute,
along West beach to Bracklesham Bay,
you see heaven is open and selling,
by the pound, with a well stocked display.
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35.
As And Where And Why

As and why and where my love,
as and where and why,
things that balance off the shelf,
fall up to the sky.
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36.
I Fell Under A Promise

I fell under a promise and was crushed, but scrambled free,
the words careering madly on, into infinity,
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37.
The Alcohol Swamp

People roll their feet up,
paddling for lost balls,
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38.
Faded

Yellow rubber gloves and a bucket full of spuds,
creeping like the devil’s own, luring silence to the bone,
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39.
Wishes

Minuets of dancing wishes, lap by circled lap inside,
tripping up where promise caught them, facing down into the tide,
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40.
Brighton

Seagulls or sirens? A quarter mile out
Engage the addiction, in shore, there's no doubt
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