My mind squats
Inscrutable
A Japanese Toad.
Ugly, immovable, obstinate.
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Vitriolic rifts and schisms
Dress them up as witticisms
Underhanded criticisms
Paraded as a pretticism.
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Clenched gatherings of black leathery wings
agitating against my breast
snittering and brushing close
As night stretches itself
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You got it wrong, you messed it up
How could you be so thick?
I ought to make you stand out front
And hit you with the Stick
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Chiffon shimmer through the glare
A flashgun marks each pose
Forwards, backwards, turn and stare,
A wilting wasted rose.
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Time flows down the street
Sighing. Newspapers eddy
Circling along the shopfront
And catching on the bolts
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In a room, alone
Blue screen flickers
Across a frown
A muttered imprecation
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' And now we hand over to Jenny on the island of Jersey where allegations of child abuse at a former children's home are being investigated by the local police who have reported finding
Bones
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We need to run tests,
The doctor said
To eliminate cancer.
But what, I thought
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A diamond fell from her eye,
Shattered in slow motion
As it collided with the bauble
And vanished into the carpet.
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