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Joe Aug 2017
It's a con man
With a small c
Armed with a masterplan
There's no such thing as society

Keep your nose clean
Keep your eyes peeled
Slip out of the streets
Into the fields of wheat

Roy Melville Wiggins
Takes his seat
A place reserved
Before his birth

No need to question
Just repeat
The well deserved
Assumed self worth

On Terry's strong and stable
Dinghy all at sea

Hearts turn hard
Heads gone soft
Lets sail away at any cost

On Terry's strong and stable
Dinghy all at sea

Who brought the map?
Oh Roy shut yer trap

On Terry's strong and stable
Dinghy all at sea
Joe Aug 2017
The brexit boxer
Bang got slapped about
Ploof banked his check
This is not a distress signal
What are you being paid for?
I sailed through as all the
Security checks bounced

Even keel
Sitting in the dark eating lard

The 52nd state thanks you for your service
Missing vowels bow before the Constant changing of the guard
Joe Aug 2017
The aptly named place Bellevue
At the time of writing contains
Eleven beating hearts
Nine, discounting my own
And that of a canine

Three, gaze out to where clouds meet
Peaks in a conspiring huddle
One, seated, inhales her clouds
Burning down from peak to basecamp
One ignores a dog with clear attachment issues

Two stroll in tandem, occasionally comparing screens
Two have wandered off in a
Calculated effort to avoid the
nosy parker on the next bench
Joe Aug 2017
Befuddled with being
Sink into your body

When they leave do you think
They hesitate
Turn and make a farewell sign
Some gesture of regret

When they leave the music is loudest
The music is loudest
The sun is high

Manna from heaven
Main celestiel
Noonday sunlight
Joe Aug 2017
'We're looking for Salcombe on sea'
Brown cows crowd around
Vincent and me

Uphill and down
Nothing but brown cows
As far as the eye can see

Raising a hoof directs
'Two green fields over you'll see the sea
I've mooed here all my life
You can trust me'
Joe Aug 2017
Don't wait till middle age
To have a crisis
Keep trying to express yourself
The world is waiting like a hungry baby

We met on the common
Amongst discarded blue lightbulbs and
Loose change
It quickly became clear we have
Nothing in common
The fair had moved on long ago
So had we.
Joe Aug 2017
Death hung in the air
As thick as biscuits

The milliner went
Mad as a hatter
Exhausted from playing the field
Spin bowler and batter

And death hung in the air
As thick as biscuits

The baker excels
At idle chatter
Drinking pints of cream
Pink buns by the platter

And death hung in the air
As thick as biscuits

The banker needs
Needs someone to flatter
A strict rotation of ties
The same old patter

And death hung in the air
As thick as biscuits
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