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Shaded Lamp Nov 2015
The tide is out
I'm left on a lonely coast
foolishly dancing in a puddle
such an impatient host.
Shaded Lamp Nov 2015
Oil
O I L
On your knees and toil
***** little citizens
Drill it from our soil

Trade
TRADE
Paid and displayed
Only in our dollars
Why are you dismayed?

Rules
RULES
Nuclear war tools
Only safe in our hands
Not those other fools

Tension
Attention
Downed "allies" jet
Spilling over borders
The old existential threat

Triggers
TRIGGERS
Billions of figures
Streamlined explosives  
BOOM the gravediggers

Presidents
Prime Ministers
Scratch each others backs
With the severed hands
Of poor souls in the barracks


00 00 00 00

The End
  Nov 2015 Shaded Lamp
Donall Dempsey
I THOUGHT BEEN A DALEK WAS A JOB FOR LIFE...

he was a Dalek fallen
on hard times he
got a job on the Underground announcing stations

his wife also
had seen better days
got a job as a talking clock

Mr. & Mrs. Dalek far from
eliminations of other
desire for world *******

"THE NEXT STOP IS WATERLOO..."
"AT THE FINAL STROKE IT WILL BE
12 NOON EXACTLY!"
  Nov 2015 Shaded Lamp
GaryFairy
impractical is the path
where wrath meets satisfaction
with hands too fast to smack
we are the captors of our actions

not adapted to the math
understanding the subtraction
with a stand that is my last
i am ****** by my exaction

with a plan so crass
like a romance with reaction
impractical is the path
where wrath meets satisfaction
Shaded Lamp Nov 2015
Dizzy daydream
Falling to the sky
Fizzing fingertips
It's too late to cry

Muscle spasms
Invisible straight-jacket
Anvil on my breast
Brokkr strikes the red hot gibbet

Sparks fly
Into the sooty black
Anvil cracks
There's no turning back

Dimming embers
Just a feeble glow
Black soot freezes
Falls as bright white snow
Shaded Lamp Nov 2015
Powder, lip gloss and dilated pupils
Rolled up notes and cheap thrills
Somewhere near the beginning of the end
Your worst enemy is your best friend
It's alright, it's just a phase you're going through
In the urban sprawl it's what you've gotta do
because....
You're a crowd pleaser, out to please
begging for friends, on your knees
You're a crowd pleaser with the latest bent
pleasing friends that are just for rent
You're a crowd pleaser, a fresh appetite
with a heavy pocket that'll soon be light
...
Wake up, leave, while they laugh with you
Exit and pay yourself what you are due
Leave before your whole soul is sold
Start a new chapter before this one's old
As you leave the sparkle and the geezers
Enter stage right the fresh crowd pleasers.
...
They're a crowd pleasers, out to please
begging for friends, on their knees
They're a crowd pleasers with the latest bent
pleasing friends that are just for rent
Just crowd pleasers, they're up all night
Lines not solitude (their primary fright)
Shaded Lamp Oct 2015
I woke up this morning
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