Michael Shepherd Poems

Pithy, precise,
wry, wise,
flinty, real,
democratic,
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Just as we prepare to celebrate
the season of sparkling white and winter fuel,
piss on earth and extended drinking hours
there steals a hooded headline
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Stop me if...

The story is,
The Queen visited our local
...

oh shitty kitty
what a pity

kitty's bitter
...

You're not
going out
wearing
that
...

Now that the frost has gone its rimy way
there’s the matter of that long grass
that meets the undergrowth
at the end of the garden;
...

your life’s a mess.
you’re a mess.
oh forget the details.
a mess. totally.
...

So many centuries of Indian thought,
so many saints who found their inmost soul,
so much of observation of the mind,
so much of consciousness itself revealed...
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