I will go and dream
now in the new dark
and pray the night
mare doesn't whinny
at the window and
disturb the sheep I
have been counting
because I will have
no way of notating
them without a pen.

The Bulls will be happy
Matador's in lockdown
and no Pamplona either
serves the ******* right.

The best thing about Covid
they can eat as much garlic
as they want and with their
rotten teeth and bad breath
France is nice to visit at last.

Curfew dogs pay no
heed to black sheep

Darkness differentiation
derides no delegates

Church bells silence
testicular pendulums

Hands semaphore -
timeless clock towers

Shadowless alleys
cat controlled kerbs

Embers doused, ashen
Phoenix faces cindered

Light rationed through
ill fitting shutters

Charred wood remnants
wafting weightlessly

Whispering eavesdrops
cobblestone chattering

Town crier echoing in
mnemonic mutterings

A rising intonation
dies on rebound, silence.

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Lockdown |ˈlɒkdaʊn|
nounN. Amer.
the confining of prisoners to their cells, typically in order to regain control during a riot. the lockdown has been in effect since October 1983.
• a state of isolation or restricted access instituted as a security
measure: the university is on lockdown and nobody has been able to leave.
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Curfew |ˈkəːfjuː|
noun
a regulation requiring people to remain indoors between specified hours, typically at night: a dusk-to-dawn curfew | [ mass noun ] : the whole area was immediately placed under curfew.
• the hour designated as the beginning of a curfew. [ mass noun ] : to be abroad after curfew without permission was to risk punishment.
• the daily signal indicating the beginning of a curfew: they had to return before the curfew sounded.

He was never on a podium

He was never given a prize

He was never applauded

He was never a best man

He was never a champion

Except from the epididymis
to the ejaculatory duct and
he was first up the fallopian.

I tried to join Men-

          -sa but my haIQu was a

wee bit too low

I walked into a store where
there was a sign which read,
" Please Wear A Face   ask "


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