If during the evening your mood
Dramatically changes you should
Consider your company
Abandon it bluntly
...
Have you ever thought how you vote
By colour of flag therefore coat
Or simply religion
I pity your children
...
I flick through
a carpet pile
of envelopes, bills
paper, poetry
...
Where to bloody hell are ya?
I wouldn’t rake ya
Fetch the eggs
from the backside of the hen
...
I heard a hell of a knock on the door
I lifted my head, I heard it once more
A dreadful noise, a please let me in knock
A for heaven's sake, don't leave me here knock
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Alan in a spill
in Lavery’s
after performance
poetry in golden thread; red
...
The bedside table is straining
Under books that sit remaining
To be written or read
All before he is dead
...
It’s the same old story
with a modern twist;
people crunched
in a credit contraption
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