Terry Collett Poems

Danny Cogan said
he was going to smash
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Before death
you wanted to kiss
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In your sleep
Brando was alive again
playing an old wild one
with leather jacket
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Unnecessary,
Auntie said,

when you asked
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Uncle’s Shave.

You used to watch Uncle
shave in front of the small mirror
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Uxley understood nothing of women.
He knew nothing of women except
Some dark memory of his mother’s teats
Buried deep in his mind’s depth.
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Never more
to have her place

her hand
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Mr Alfreds was saddened
by Mrs Tinkledrip's demise.
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Despite the fact
that other local kids

were in the hay barn playing
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Celia looked at her reflection
In the back of the spoon;
Her face was blown outward
As if captured on some balloon.
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