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All Life is but a SongHer mouth glittered agape / With sacred promise, / Like a box of unused

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The Oroborus of LustCrawl to me on all fours, and fix me with those eyes. / Gleaming ivory in the pale darkness. / Suitored to alien mires, foreign environments of crawling dust and spires of simplistic grace.

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Written in Lover's BloodWrite me your vows on paperflesh / Pen me your desires in lovers blood / Slip it in an envelope, seal it with a kiss

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The Melancholy of the CityThere's something tragic about Brisbane; the city speaks of an older more Romantic time, though the people speak of a newer, modern; more disposable age. It seemingly looks at you with a lost lovers eyes. / Though the city still retains some of its antique glamour; take a stroll down any street in the center and around you will be found the remnants of that age. / Victorian Red-bricks dot the city like proud sentinels, keeping watch over the ever expanding invasion of its contemporary neighbours.

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Mountains round her neckShe wore mountains round her neck / (“No, lower.”) / Peaked with scented minarets

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Brisbane Street Sketch 55:00 am - Happy New Year! / I look like I should be a musician not a poet. / "It's so easy being a poet

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Brisbane Street Sketch 3Treasury Casino, 3:03 am. Monday morning. / Casino bars shut at 3:00 am in QLD. / I missed a place to sleep by 9 minutes.

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Brisbane Street Sketch 1The silent street erupted around me the moment I sat down, / a thunder rumbles in the distance / but only reveals a passing truck.

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Gypsy SoulI felt you kiss the edges / of my gypsy soul last night. / You laid aside my armour

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Train Sketch 1Tonight's grey cloud hangs over the pearlescent blue and pink of today. / The gray is an avalanche / criss-crossed

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