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"clive" poems
Some days we are but noise beneath a silent sky, Waiting and wanting to be heard, The creek of an old machine still proving it's worth, The light of a dying star illuminating the faces of people we love, Framed, perpetually, by the world. (Inspired by the Photography of Clive Roughley)
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Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015 at 4:13 PM UTC
Photo
the carbon tax is gone the carbon tax is gone hey aint that good news the carbon tax is gone the power companies can pass the savings on now that the carbon tax is gone electricity bills of late have been too high peaking at 18 percent which has left little in the purse to pay our rent Clive and his senate colleagues have done a jolly good thing getting rid of that carbon tax thing which has engendered in the public much irking the carbon tax is gone the carbon tax is gone hey aint that good news the carbon tax is gone
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 8:33 PM UTC
Carbon Tax
The cop asked me for my license to which I replied what the hell is that. Officer Tillman I belive i met your wife in a restroom down at the laundrymat. She didnt do ya justice. Cause you arent all that ugly but you are kinda fat. No my last name isnt Knoxville but I sure had some fun in Tennessee. Met darlin that left a burnin feelin behind just for me. My life is like a tweenty four hour cartoon. A wreckless wonder. If ya wanna ride along theres always room. Gotta babydoll I often reffer to as Tinker. She's my favorite semi insane funsize drinker. Got a amigo or two. Some fake ID's cause some people just happen to be looking for me. I thought you already knew. Some people like to hate. Clive. Forrest. Ian. Dont be jelouse your still living togather in the same basement no hope ever having none inflatable date. Iv'e taken some pretty hard licks. Put my mind in a blender . Now all im left with is becon bits. Im the Jackass of poetry alone I hold the crown. Some might call me a village idoit. But I would say im most fun fella in town. And if ya read this work and still cant see. You can go to hell. And thats one thing apon me my imaginary friends and my little badass tinker agree.
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Oct 18, 2009
Oct 18, 2009 at 11:55 AM UTC
The ******* Of Poetry
The two nurses strip me off for a blanket bath, said Grace, I lay here on the bed, my blind eyes staring at blackness. They lift each leg stump and wash them gently and with care; they wash me where only mother ever touched when I was a child; they wash me with the warm water all over, talking between themselves; they talk of the bombing the night before, of the people brought in from the raid; of the many dead who lay in the mortuary now. One talks of her night out with her boyfriend home on leave, the other asks questions; I fail to listen to. I think of Clive and the last time we made love in my bed before he went off to fight and was killed at Dunkirk, and the night my house was bombed and my maid was killed and I lost my legs and sight and thrown into this dark night. They dry me gently and dress my stumps again and the put on my nightie. They have gone and I lay here musing on Clive and the man Philip who came with Guy and who talked to me and promised to take me out. Why would he want to go out with a legless, blind woman? And where would we go? He never said and I may never know.
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 3:14 AM UTC
Bathing Grace 1940
. i'm not an alcoholic, i'm an intermediating construct of blues... i think more about blank canvas i am to fill, than the next drink 'm about to have.... why give a dog's bollock's care concerning yourself with whst other other, proper, "sober", sensible people make of your?   i guess an inhibition of a lost verse...        in poetry we call that a quais take on a paragraph...    something akin to: the same worth of the worth of something worth losing... get the drift?!   Clive Owen... Denzel Washington, Brian Molko... now? breed me, a ******* hybrid Q your nag hammadi perfectionism! you trans-gender eucharist!    breed me an example to my specification! breed it! show me the Frankenstein! breed it!        i want wolf ***** "ingested" in women subjects! i, WANT, THEM!                you want the Frankenstein monster? first you need the mad doctor... you have me... cuffed and teasing!      i am,. dying to waake from what is death, and what is death assured, in the fork form of, shadow...    you, want, the monster... i am giving your the antithesis of the nameless caricature of what man's capability!             i need it, whatever "it", is...        i will not sleep till this "thing" is awake in the womb of my cognition... and i know of its wake!                  it's funeral a birth, it's birth, banshee screech!                  the failed Polish winged hussar charge against the Ukranian Cossack upriing, thick, in, mud...                         i have the desires to damage marking banknotes...       Shelley will always outlast the credibility of Austen...     Mary contra Jane...        horror... Frankenstein monsters... vampires...      werewolves... she's the third of the canon!   you don't do that! you can't do that!                 but you did, do that! there is a shadow of man, he dares to call history to contra the visage for the excuses of journalism...      not here... not now...   as a young boy, i dreamed of mingling the ***** of wolves, being impregnated in human females...         i guess, as a treat... to alleviate the existing product                  of down syndrome' what? what is science? if not the reinvigorated perpetuation of trans-categorical inquiry? p.s. when i drink? the last "thing" on my mind is the activity of drinking, notably, for socially unhinged barriers to be broken... i'm an anti-social drinker... i hate conversation, esp. when drinking... a ******* desert, when it comes to              the calorie intake!
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 9:52 PM UTC
confession
. i'm not an alcoholic, i'm an intermediating construct of blues... i think more about blank canvas i am to fill, than the next drink 'm about to have.... why give a dog's bollock's care concerning yourself with whst other other, proper, "sober", sensible people make of your?   i guess an inhibition of a lost verse...        in poetry we call that a quais take on a paragraph...    something akin to: the same worth of the worth of something worth losing... get the drift?!   Clive Owen... Denzel Washington, Brian Molko... now? breed me, a ******* hybrid Q your nag hammadi perfectionism! you trans-gender eucharist!    breed me an example to my specification! breed it! show me the Frankenstein! breed it!        i want wolf ***** "ingested" in women subjects! i, WANT, THEM!                you want the Frankenstein monster? first you need the mad doctor... you have me... cuffed and teasing!      i am,. dying to waake from what is death, and what is death assured, in the fork form of, shadow...    you, want, the monster... i am giving your the antithesis of the nameless caricature of what man's capability!             i need it, whatever "it", is...        i will not sleep till this "thing" is awake in the womb of my cognition... and i know of its wake!                  it's funeral a birth, it's birth, banshee screech!                  the failed Polish winged hussar charge against the Ukranian Cossack upriing, thick, in, mud...                         i have the desires to damage marking banknotes...       Shelley will always outlast the credibility of Austen...     Mary contra Jane...        horror... Frankenstein monsters... vampires...      werewolves... she's the third of the canon!   you don't do that! you can't do that!                 but you did, do that! there is a shadow of man, he dares to call history to contra the visage for the excuses of journalism...      not here... not now...   as a young boy, i dreamed of mingling the ***** of wolves, being impregnated in human females...         i guess, as a treat... to alleviate the existing product                  of down syndrome' what? what is science? if not the reinvigorated perpetuation of trans-categorical inquiry? p.s. when i drink? the last "thing" on my mind is the activity of drinking, notably, for socially unhinged barriers to be broken... i'm an anti-social drinker... i hate conversation, esp. when drinking... a ******* desert, when it comes to              the calorie intake!
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Met this man today. Called Clive. Who must be the gayest man alive. We worked together all day. I watch his gestures here. His gestures there. Seam to wave his hands, all the time in the air. But one thing, I can say about Clive. It was a colourful day. So this poem is for Clive. The gayest man alive.
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Apr 12, 2012
Apr 12, 2012 at 4:22 PM UTC
Mind the gender gap!
Cyrus was a butcher, the ladies thought him sweet, and when they spoke, the gals would joke about old Cyrus' meat. But soon the missus told 'em, her one and only beef- forget the size or how he'd rise, Old Cyrus was too brief. His brother, Clive, the baker, a young and heavy lad, was paid no mind by womankind cause of the weight he had. But soon the missus told 'em, with a twinkle in her eye, Forget the size, or how he'd rise, that boy could eat a pie!
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May 26, 2016
May 26, 2016 at 10:52 AM UTC
The Butcher and the Baker
Robert Clive. He was an agent of the Brutish British, And he brought misery to my Bhaarat.
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Jun 10, 2020
Jun 10, 2020 at 12:21 PM UTC
I Shall Remind You Of A Mass Murderer
This is a poem about a very good friend How a bond came to a sad bitter end People get scars grow and go their way But you didn't, you stayed and wanted to make the world pay It isn't that I can’t sympathize Through our conversations I saw the world through your eyes Tales of all the times your soul had been wrung By the countless songs cruel children had sung Through this trust, a bond was formed It was true, tested and through the years; timeworn How many times have you said you were jealous of my life, one, two? For a person like me a thought like that just wouldn't do I tried to teach you: you should love you for you! ***** what other people say or do! I tried and tried but you couldn't see It felt like teaching a hamster basic geometry Then came the fateful day, you felt under the weather And you decided to attack me, your imagined better You didn't come at me with a knife or a fist You just knew me well enough to hurt me without a hit Oh I see… Clive doesn't like dependents and dependency? I’ll call him god, yes! that’ll make him see! A friend I thought broken Due to the actions and words I've spoken My god; what monster have I become? Is this the price of my happiness; for minds to succumb? To whatever venomous bile my mouth spills The thought of doing this again gave me chills But you were never broken; you just wanted some sick thrill I was in the process of killing my own spirit Months passed, I realized it was deliberate The damage was done My social skills were all but gone Once you go awkward It’s very hard to go backward So I didn't, I ventured on To look for places, for victories to be won And I did, through poetry, comedy and song This didn't happen over-night the journey was long Don’t you realize that this is what you could have done? Instead of being this caricature that you embrace full on Put down the **** Don’t limit yourself to a second rate Cheek and Chong To get rid of pain,  don't inflict it on others Just love yourself, your sisters and brothers You don’t need to be a punch line I hope you pull out of this decline This is not a joke at your expense I still appreciate the good times spent This poem is dedicated to you Hoping you realize that there are other paths too I'm just trying to make you see There are several ways of setting yourself free
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May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 at 12:51 PM UTC
Setting Yourself Free
This is a poem about a very good friend How a bond came to a sad bitter end People get scars grow and go their way But you didn't, you stayed and wanted to make the world pay It isn't that I can’t sympathize Through our conversations I saw the world through your eyes Tales of all the times your soul had been wrung By the countless songs cruel children had sung Through this trust, a bond was formed It was true, tested and through the years; timeworn How many times have you said you were jealous of my life, one, two? For a person like me a thought like that just wouldn't do I tried to teach you: you should love you for you! ***** what other people say or do! I tried and tried but you couldn't see It felt like teaching a hamster basic geometry Then came the fateful day, you felt under the weather And you decided to attack me, your imagined better You didn't come at me with a knife or a fist You just knew me well enough to hurt me without a hit Oh I see… Clive doesn't like dependents and dependency? I’ll call him god, yes! that’ll make him see! A friend I thought broken Due to the actions and words I've spoken My god; what monster have I become? Is this the price of my happiness; for minds to succumb? To whatever venomous bile my mouth spills The thought of doing this again gave me chills But you were never broken; you just wanted some sick thrill I was in the process of killing my own spirit Months passed, I realized it was deliberate The damage was done My social skills were all but gone Once you go awkward It’s very hard to go backward So I didn't, I ventured on To look for places, for victories to be won And I did, through poetry, comedy and song This didn't happen over-night the journey was long Don’t you realize that this is what you could have done? Instead of being this caricature that you embrace full on Put down the **** Don’t limit yourself to a second rate Cheek and Chong To get rid of pain,  don't inflict it on others Just love yourself, your sisters and brothers You don’t need to be a punch line I hope you pull out of this decline This is not a joke at your expense I still appreciate the good times spent This poem is dedicated to you Hoping you realize that there are other paths too I'm just trying to make you see There are several ways of setting yourself free
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You blasted into this world running free to be yourself. You needed no sanctuary to hide away from this strange world. Please, remember tomorrow for we will all be sad, because you're no longer with us. You've traveled to another life. You were like a prodigal son, but not one of the drifters. Not another *children of the ****** invaders to this realm. Yet life wasn't easy, it trapped you in an iron maiden, thus you became the prisoner by the number of the beast. Now you're gone, but it wasn't the killers who took you. No murders in the rue Morgue put you in your own purgatory. Don't think of this as an innocent exile or a total eclipse. 22 Acacia avenue awaits for his favorite client. No need to run to the hills. There is no twilight zone. You lived by your true self so hallowed be thy name.
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 2:29 PM UTC
Clive Burr.
The nurses must think I’m asleep because my eyes are closed but my blind eyes can see nothing whether open or closed I lie thinking about how I danced with Clive back in 1939 what will happen to Grace now? one nurse says talking nearby her leg stumps are healing now but whether she'll walk again depends how she copes another nurse says no sight either how does she make out that? the first nurse says she's still pretty though no scars or ****** damage and that gentleman who visited her wants to take her out to dinner when she is more able I lie still pretend I am sleeping wanting to hear more my leg stumps throb and my none existent feet itch and I want to scratched them but lie still trying to act a sleeping beauty waiting for my prince to come her house was bombed but she was pulled out alive but her maid was killed the nurse says breaking into my act the feet itching the stumps throbbing my eyes wanting to see again the nurses move away outside hitting windows a harsh fall of rain.
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Mar 29, 2016
Mar 29, 2016 at 3:26 PM UTC
HARSH FALL OF RAIN 1940
I am lying flat on the bed, a nurse is rubbing my leg stumps, her hands are smooth, fingers skillful. Another nurse is beside me; I  can hear their conversation between each other. She died in the night, the nurse nearby says, terrible wounds, didn't think she would survive. I think of Jean and how she had just gone off after our row yesterday. Her children were dead at the scene; the house took a direct hit in last night's blitz, the nurse nearby says. It is tragic children being killed like that, the nurse rubbing my leg stumps says. I stare at the area of their voices as if I could see, but I see nothing, darkness where voices come from. My hands lie dormant by my sides. It is oddly sensual this rubbing, painful but sensual, as if the mixture of pain and rubbing combined to make it seem sensual. I remember Clive touching me the last time, his hands moving between my legs and kissing my feet and even now I sense his kisses. The last time we made love. There between me he lay. Then, he was gone and died at Dunkirk. The reality shocks me and I move, Steady , Grace, steady, am I hurting you? the nurse says, holding my leg stumps. No, I say, no just a memory. She rubs again, the sensuality fighting with the pain.
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Feb 15, 2016
Feb 15, 2016 at 2:55 AM UTC
FIGHTING WITH THE PAIN 1940.
Leaving class during an internal lockdown Shooting elastic bands at the target we mounted on the wall Shooting elastic bands at our teacher's hat Hiding from our teacher with the hat Naming the robot we programed in class: Clive Bananagrams Ditching gym class Talking/lying our way out of trouble a lot lol Making elaborate plans to do very odd things (and playing pink panther music as well as mission impossible music when we did it) Putting mistletoe everywhere in the school at Christmas Texting quotes of the night Writing fictional stories and sending them over text to each other in parts at 2AM Writing poetry Learning the Greek Alphabet so we could play Greek Hangman Creating numerous extremely complicated codes where punctuation, capitalization, "accidental" smudges near words and how you pronounce certain words is significant. Always buying the same drink at Starbucks Eating a ridiculous amount of free samples at the Fro Yo place Skipping down the hall happily in our gothic spiked clothing. Just to confuse people. Watching the looks we got. Writing limericks in math class Playing Go Fish with our bus passes and when the teacher came over all he said was: Oh! Who's winning? Playing full tackle basketball...when we were supposed to be playing badminton Filling a friend's locker with stuffed animals while they were away and texting them to warn them we put a lion and bear in their locker Inside jokes: Whiteout, Whip-cream, We-are-the-crazy-people, **** that's a fiiiine shoulder! Pass the coke! Playing Quarto during Science class Playing boggle during religion I miss that grade. I wish things could go back to the way they were, but they really can't ever. I miss being so young and innocen- hahahahaha okay, not innocent but young and crazy. I miss when there were not scars on my arms and my soul.
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Dec 7, 2014
Dec 7, 2014 at 1:29 PM UTC
Memories from the best year ever so long ago
Leaving class during an internal lockdown Shooting elastic bands at the target we mounted on the wall Shooting elastic bands at our teacher's hat Hiding from our teacher with the hat Naming the robot we programed in class: Clive Bananagrams Ditching gym class Talking/lying our way out of trouble a lot lol Making elaborate plans to do very odd things (and playing pink panther music as well as mission impossible music when we did it) Putting mistletoe everywhere in the school at Christmas Texting quotes of the night Writing fictional stories and sending them over text to each other in parts at 2AM Writing poetry Learning the Greek Alphabet so we could play Greek Hangman Creating numerous extremely complicated codes where punctuation, capitalization, "accidental" smudges near words and how you pronounce certain words is significant. Always buying the same drink at Starbucks Eating a ridiculous amount of free samples at the Fro Yo place Skipping down the hall happily in our gothic spiked clothing. Just to confuse people. Watching the looks we got. Writing limericks in math class Playing Go Fish with our bus passes and when the teacher came over all he said was: Oh! Who's winning? Playing full tackle basketball...when we were supposed to be playing badminton Filling a friend's locker with stuffed animals while they were away and texting them to warn them we put a lion and bear in their locker Inside jokes: Whiteout, Whip-cream, We-are-the-crazy-people, **** that's a fiiiine shoulder! Pass the coke! Playing Quarto during Science class Playing boggle during religion I miss that grade. I wish things could go back to the way they were, but they really can't ever. I miss being so young and innocen- hahahahaha okay, not innocent but young and crazy. I miss when there were not scars on my arms and my soul.
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I really hope that you understand how much I love you, because I love you SO much You are currently chewing ends of my glasses, and I'm letting you You are my literal sunshine, you always make me smile no matter how horribly depressed I am You are 7 years and 3 months old; I know you're getting older You're technically a "senior" cat now, and I am so grateful that you're here with me right now Every day I beg god, the universe, any higher power, I beg that you're happy and healthy and that you'll stay that way into your 20s I can't imagine my life without you I know you can't read or fully comprehend human words, but I really really hope you feel how much I love you, in every pet, in all the scratchies, brushies, in every cuddle and kiss I know I upset you when I trim your claws and paw fur, and when I take you to the vet, but I do it because I love you It makes me endlessly sad and anxious that you're a big boy now; I know your joints will get tired, your fur will turn white at your snoot, you'll sleep more I know that you growing older isn't something either of us can control, but I don't know what I would do without you You have been there for me through the worst parts of my life up to now I want you to be there with me during the best parts too I want you to meet my spouse and my kids when I grow up (if I ever get married) I pray that you'll be with me for at least 13 more years I know one day your breath will get heavy and troubled, your joints will ache all the time, I know one day I'll have to do what's best for you in your old age; I know I'll have to hold you close, with tears running down my cheeks, and I'll tell you how much I love you, until your beautiful little heart stops beating and your little lungs give out And I will sob hysterically, scream and curse god for taking my baby boy But until then, hopefully far far far from now; I will make sure you're happy and healthy You will always know that you're my baby; that you're my home I love you, my fat little man
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Sep 23, 2022
Sep 23, 2022 at 6:10 PM UTC
To my Clive
I really hope that you understand how much I love you, because I love you SO much You are currently chewing ends of my glasses, and I'm letting you You are my literal sunshine, you always make me smile no matter how horribly depressed I am You are 7 years and 3 months old; I know you're getting older You're technically a "senior" cat now, and I am so grateful that you're here with me right now Every day I beg god, the universe, any higher power, I beg that you're happy and healthy and that you'll stay that way into your 20s I can't imagine my life without you I know you can't read or fully comprehend human words, but I really really hope you feel how much I love you, in every pet, in all the scratchies, brushies, in every cuddle and kiss I know I upset you when I trim your claws and paw fur, and when I take you to the vet, but I do it because I love you It makes me endlessly sad and anxious that you're a big boy now; I know your joints will get tired, your fur will turn white at your snoot, you'll sleep more I know that you growing older isn't something either of us can control, but I don't know what I would do without you You have been there for me through the worst parts of my life up to now I want you to be there with me during the best parts too I want you to meet my spouse and my kids when I grow up (if I ever get married) I pray that you'll be with me for at least 13 more years I know one day your breath will get heavy and troubled, your joints will ache all the time, I know one day I'll have to do what's best for you in your old age; I know I'll have to hold you close, with tears running down my cheeks, and I'll tell you how much I love you, until your beautiful little heart stops beating and your little lungs give out And I will sob hysterically, scream and curse god for taking my baby boy But until then, hopefully far far far from now; I will make sure you're happy and healthy You will always know that you're my baby; that you're my home I love you, my fat little man
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Life changing the Blitz bomb took my sight and my legs. Clive gone too at Dunkirk. I recall our last kiss as the train left London. I sit in this darkness. Hospital smells around and voice sounds. Morning Grace a voice says. My blind eyes turn around to the sound. Who is it? I enquire. Doctor Clay I have come to see you and see how your stumps are the voice says. They're painful I tell him. Nurse we need Grace to be lying down. Between them they lift me on the bed. Fingers lift my nightdress and unwrap bandages. Fresh air hits the leg stumps. His fingers examine what is left of my legs. They're healing very well he tells me. Soon we will have someone sort you out for new legs he informs. I thank him. He goes off and the nurse (small fingered) now attends to some fresh bandages. As her fingers touch my thighs I recall Clive touching me there too that last time before he left for the War. I stare out into dark cold spaces and a far away shore.
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Mar 10, 2017
Mar 10, 2017 at 9:12 AM UTC
LIFE CHANGING 1940.
He used to deliver Groceries to Mrs Ushmore as a kid and She’d say, bring it into The kitchen, Henry, and Put it down on the side, Why, you must be thirsty After carrying that Heavy load to my door, And he’d go in with the Groceries and lay them Down where she had shown him And looked around the place Trying hard to avoid Looking at young Mrs Ushmore who was dressed in The skimpiest of things And pretended to be Looking around at the Shelves and gas cooker and Out the large window. What are you having, she Asked, Coke? Yeah, that’ll be Fine, he replied, looking Over her shoulder at The wallpaper of bright Yellow flowers. Have you Seen my ***** She asked. Miss Glissy, I call her. Henry shook his head and Looked briefly at her. No, He replied, getting a Quick glimpse of her big ******* Fighting to escape from The black bra. Here, she said, Have a Coke and don’t go Rushing it now, don’t want You to get the hiccups And have your mother come Over here telling me Off. No, I won’t, he said, Sipping the Coke, tasting Each mouthful, letting it Rest on his tongue. I love My ***** she said, but My husband, Clive, he has Little to do with her, Says she’s nothing to be Too fussed about. Henry Swallowed the small mouthful. His eyes settled like small Butterflies on her thighs, Focussing where her black Suspenders met the brown Stockings and the skin stretched Out there like nothing he’d Seen before, not even Amy Shortdove, showed him That much for her two dimes. Would you like to stroke Miss Glissy? She asked, giving Henry a wide-eyed stare. No, I better be off, Henry said gulping down The last remaining Coke. Mr Ashton don’t like Me hanging around and I’ve loads more to do and Maybe another time, Mrs Ushmore, I can Stroke your ***** Sure, she Said smiling, I’m sure she’d Like that. Henry rode his Bike away not looking Back, not letting her see He was interested, Not letting her think he’d Ever stroke Miss Glissy In a thousand years let Alone days or weeks, And he never did see Or stroke Mrs Ushmore’s ***** but he often Dreamed he did and enjoyed The dream, with him and Miss Glissy purring and both Of them licking the cream.
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Apr 4, 2012
Apr 4, 2012 at 4:30 AM UTC
MRS USHMORE'S *****
He used to deliver Groceries to Mrs Ushmore as a kid and She’d say, bring it into The kitchen, Henry, and Put it down on the side, Why, you must be thirsty After carrying that Heavy load to my door, And he’d go in with the Groceries and lay them Down where she had shown him And looked around the place Trying hard to avoid Looking at young Mrs Ushmore who was dressed in The skimpiest of things And pretended to be Looking around at the Shelves and gas cooker and Out the large window. What are you having, she Asked, Coke? Yeah, that’ll be Fine, he replied, looking Over her shoulder at The wallpaper of bright Yellow flowers. Have you Seen my ***** She asked. Miss Glissy, I call her. Henry shook his head and Looked briefly at her. No, He replied, getting a Quick glimpse of her big ******* Fighting to escape from The black bra. Here, she said, Have a Coke and don’t go Rushing it now, don’t want You to get the hiccups And have your mother come Over here telling me Off. No, I won’t, he said, Sipping the Coke, tasting Each mouthful, letting it Rest on his tongue. I love My ***** she said, but My husband, Clive, he has Little to do with her, Says she’s nothing to be Too fussed about. Henry Swallowed the small mouthful. His eyes settled like small Butterflies on her thighs, Focussing where her black Suspenders met the brown Stockings and the skin stretched Out there like nothing he’d Seen before, not even Amy Shortdove, showed him That much for her two dimes. Would you like to stroke Miss Glissy? She asked, giving Henry a wide-eyed stare. No, I better be off, Henry said gulping down The last remaining Coke. Mr Ashton don’t like Me hanging around and I’ve loads more to do and Maybe another time, Mrs Ushmore, I can Stroke your ***** Sure, she Said smiling, I’m sure she’d Like that. Henry rode his Bike away not looking Back, not letting her see He was interested, Not letting her think he’d Ever stroke Miss Glissy In a thousand years let Alone days or weeks, And he never did see Or stroke Mrs Ushmore’s ***** but he often Dreamed he did and enjoyed The dream, with him and Miss Glissy purring and both Of them licking the cream.
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This page is white as a white can be Til I lift my pen and trace A scrawl of black from an inky sac, A tale of the human race. I pick and choose, who wins, who lose Their brief duet with fate, Who twist and turn as they live and learn To dance at my garden gate. I paint in the cliffs and the sky above, The shingle, down on the shore, A tiny cottage that’s full of love With a garden of herbs, and more, A man who walks on the winding path, He’s a difficult man to gauge, Will he be happy, or sad, or what When I get to the end of the page? I’ll call him Clive, for he’s so alive When he gets to the cottage gate, His eyes are bright in the fading light As he looks for his darling, Kate. She hears the creak of the hinges greet The one who captured her heart, And races out through the cottage door, Who am I, to keep them apart? But the world is cruel and there’s always gruel To add to a perfect tale, I should be telling this up at the pub, Over a pint of ale. But I’d have to muddy my story up To make my listeners tense, And what does it take but a big brown snake To add to the tale’s suspense. The snake came slithering out of the herbs And reared it’s head up high, I could be mean with the following scene As the snake bites Kate in the thigh. But I’m only here to fill the page Not to lay a ****** trail, So Clive, alive to the danger leaps To seize the snake by the tail. Our hero takes the snake by the tail And cracks it like a whip, Shatters its spinal cord and so, That was the end of it. There’s a smiling face and a swift embrace And a tale untold, for sure, When Clive and Kate shut the creaky gate And enter the cottage door. I only wanted to tell a tale To banish this page of white, The page that mocks like a sly old fox When I stare at it each night. So take the story of Clive and Kate Who live on top of the cliff, And dream sweet dreams if your own life seems Too bland, and think, ‘What if?’ David Lewis Paget
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Mar 20, 2015
Mar 20, 2015 at 8:16 AM UTC
The Blank Page
This page is white as a white can be Til I lift my pen and trace A scrawl of black from an inky sac, A tale of the human race. I pick and choose, who wins, who lose Their brief duet with fate, Who twist and turn as they live and learn To dance at my garden gate. I paint in the cliffs and the sky above, The shingle, down on the shore, A tiny cottage that’s full of love With a garden of herbs, and more, A man who walks on the winding path, He’s a difficult man to gauge, Will he be happy, or sad, or what When I get to the end of the page? I’ll call him Clive, for he’s so alive When he gets to the cottage gate, His eyes are bright in the fading light As he looks for his darling, Kate. She hears the creak of the hinges greet The one who captured her heart, And races out through the cottage door, Who am I, to keep them apart? But the world is cruel and there’s always gruel To add to a perfect tale, I should be telling this up at the pub, Over a pint of ale. But I’d have to muddy my story up To make my listeners tense, And what does it take but a big brown snake To add to the tale’s suspense. The snake came slithering out of the herbs And reared it’s head up high, I could be mean with the following scene As the snake bites Kate in the thigh. But I’m only here to fill the page Not to lay a ****** trail, So Clive, alive to the danger leaps To seize the snake by the tail. Our hero takes the snake by the tail And cracks it like a whip, Shatters its spinal cord and so, That was the end of it. There’s a smiling face and a swift embrace And a tale untold, for sure, When Clive and Kate shut the creaky gate And enter the cottage door. I only wanted to tell a tale To banish this page of white, The page that mocks like a sly old fox When I stare at it each night. So take the story of Clive and Kate Who live on top of the cliff, And dream sweet dreams if your own life seems Too bland, and think, ‘What if?’ David Lewis Paget
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The ward is busy I hear voices, and calls, and a bell rings nearby. My blind eyes see nothing, but I turn my head at each sound pretending I can see. A hand touches my arm.   Morning Grace, how are you? It's Nurse Kavel isn't it? I say. Yes it is, she says, how are you? My legs hurt, my toes itch me, I tell her. The stumps of your legs will hurt, but the itching toes is in the the brain's memory, she says. Are my leg stumps healing? They are improving, she says, once they have healed sufficiently the doctors will talk about getting you artificial limbs, and you will receive help on how to walk again. Will I walk again? Yes you will, Grace, the nurse says, in time, but for now we must do what we can to make you comfortable, and keep the stumps clean and able to heal. She pulls back the blankets, and lifts up my nightgown, and begins to unwrap the bandage on my right stump, and I look into the darkness, and see nothing, but in my mind, I think of Anthony, and us dancing (Clive had died a month earlier) and he was trying to cheer me up, and get me back into War-time society again, and he had taken me home, and kissed me goodnight on my doorstep. I lick my lips as if the kiss is now, and want it to be a kiss from someone not this darkness, and feeling undone.
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 6:54 AM UTC
FEELING UNDONE 1940
Molluscs in Felpham on a humid June night; these are your friends and this is your village and I'm sweating more, since you lent me this lotion, Clive Anderson's Brut Romance Knock, knock, on my porch window And I will invite you, "swallow-down gentle my "frere j'accord dans l'hotelier". I can move any mountain.
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 7:39 PM UTC
Wave goodbye to your canal holiday
Joe still can't get the senate chamber to agree that he has a well thought out budget strategy parts of his budget bill wont get passed this calendar year   which will cause the Libs and Nats to all jeer expenditure must be well reined in the stack of treasury notes are rather thin none of the belt tightening measures getting in the impasse means the government wont have savings in the tin the country needs to have the books in the black if they don't pass the bills we'll always looking back Clive Palmer, The Greens and Labor wont give ground so the budget papers will just keep hanging around parliament will soon be on a summer break with our current fiscal balance being at stake we're all hoping that common sense will prevail as our nation's economy shall continue to ail
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Oct 7, 2014
Oct 7, 2014 at 9:31 PM UTC
Ail
We had our Jesse Helm. We had our George Wallace. We even have a Clive Bundy. Who reminds you of Bull Connor? They speak. And a few supporters support them. And their off center views. But they always fail to comprehend truth. Who profited the most off of slavery? Who gained the most off of segregation? Who reflect back to the days of their youth? When they wasn't treated harshly or cruel. But during the days of segregation came across as fools. Now that time is changing. And many can't adapt. They hold on too their racist ways. Even support from kiss up politicians of today. Who agree one minute? Then back off the next. When heat comes upon them from the news. Yes, who profited the most? Oh, they cry about Affirmative action. Which wouldn't have been created. If they only been fair. Many minorities remember the hurtful scares that still there. Many youth today support their elders hating upon them. For the turning on of the fire hydrants. And bombing churches. Yes, churches of all place. And the courts afraid to punish them. Yes, who profited the most from segregation? Who ran to far region of the city? And fighting to change things back to those golden days. Many minorities remember the black maid. A role many Latinos are assigned today. Many remember the black mothers raising the white child. Oh, its true. That the more things change. The more things stays the same way. That's one of the main reasons we still fighting bigotry today.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 10:45 PM UTC
Who Profited The Most?
Wearing Sekt Bleeding mutiny Screaming demons On box shadows Conspiracy of the night Ripping rubber tight Laughing odyssey Hopping commoditys Playing cool Metal shins Smile and grin Illegal eagles Give me wings To a better day A better way Back alley junkies Making the monkeys Howler sharpened teeth Steal laced blades Marking walls Black as strike Notches in dirt Pumping till it hurts Like Monday Never beats Sunday Cuz I'm Bumpski's Hopping stars Lighting the dark highway To hell Like NIB Every single day Every single way Like a red eye Nash Lighting hash From Bringing it back To stand in place where you are And riding the frequency Yeah Blaze Yeah Clive Yeah Kevin Smoking M1987
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 2:31 AM UTC
****** Sabbath
CLIVE PALMER IS NOW ILL AND CANT REMEMBER ANYMORE TWO BUSINESS MEN FROM THE PAST BOTH TRIED THE SAME SCORE THEY ALL HAVE RUN THEIR COMPANY INTO THE GROUND WHERE DID ALL THE MONEY GO NEVER MORE TO BE FOUND ITS NOW THE CREDITORS AND WORKERS THAT NOW ALL HAVE TO MISS OUT BECAUSE CLIVE PALMER HAS LOST HIS MEMORY AND DOSEN'T KNOW WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT WHEN WILL THESE HIGH FLYERS LEARN TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE INSTEAD OF LOOSING THEIR MEMORY AND ONLY THINKING OF NUMBER ONE
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May 16, 2017
May 16, 2017 at 6:21 PM UTC
CLIVE PALMER
There are cries and the sound of rushing and voices high. I stare into the blackness with my blind eyes and turn my head following the noise. I sit up balancing myself on my leg stumps hands each side of my hips. What's going on? I call what's happened? Someone comes beside my bed. Girls got bombed in the jam factory the voice said many killed others covered in hot sugar. The voice went off I wanted to get up but I could go now where without legs. I lay down again peering into the darkness wishing Clive was there not dead some place or where is Philip? I lay my head on the pillow wanting him there beside me on the bed making love to me inside my head.
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Jun 30, 2017
Jun 30, 2017 at 3:48 AM UTC
LOVE INSIDE MY HEAD 1940
these are the thoughts of Clive, the neighborhood curmudgeon... how do i know this, i am the imp that put them here.... in the garden, you folks call a brain...... *take this, sodding life and it's meaningless struggle. i set my face to this wall and brick myself self in to this useless stall. the old man, Clive, grumbled with a, set and sour grin. you...you're all pathetic, thinking you can win. death's the only victor... over us, one and sodding all. and you can take, your sodding... flowers and cards and sodding, casseroles too!! there was, one ray of sunshine in my life and now she is gone. and she is not, sodding around in another room, or waiting for me up there. she is not, in greener pastures cause she was never.. an effin cow. she is, six footdown, underground, in a cheap wooden box, making fodder, for worms and beetles. slowly, they are, breakin her down. and it will not be, sodding fine and time will not heal... a heart smashed to smithereens. a life torn asunder **** me it's time, for you pathetic do-gooders... to get ****** real.... no i am not, a happy man, and yes i am, greiving the greatest loss. and a ****** sausage and bean casserole, is not going to be, making me believe, that the world, is a fair and just place... don't you, worry about me. i reckon i'll soon be, leaving, my home and my goods and chattels and be recieving last rites, farewells and a deep,dirt bed. and that will be, fine and dandy, as long as it is, close and handy, to my beloved, Mandy. what? you're worried... about my, state of mind... will ya, just sod off, haven't i made myself clear, i am way, too busy dying, to pay you any attention...* this garden just going gangbuster hey¡¡yah huzzah!!!
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Jul 4, 2014
Jul 4, 2014 at 7:33 AM UTC
Clive,the curmudgeon
these are the thoughts of Clive, the neighborhood curmudgeon... how do i know this, i am the imp that put them here.... in the garden, you folks call a brain...... *take this, sodding life and it's meaningless struggle. i set my face to this wall and brick myself self in to this useless stall. the old man, Clive, grumbled with a, set and sour grin. you...you're all pathetic, thinking you can win. death's the only victor... over us, one and sodding all. and you can take, your sodding... flowers and cards and sodding, casseroles too!! there was, one ray of sunshine in my life and now she is gone. and she is not, sodding around in another room, or waiting for me up there. she is not, in greener pastures cause she was never.. an effin cow. she is, six footdown, underground, in a cheap wooden box, making fodder, for worms and beetles. slowly, they are, breakin her down. and it will not be, sodding fine and time will not heal... a heart smashed to smithereens. a life torn asunder **** me it's time, for you pathetic do-gooders... to get ****** real.... no i am not, a happy man, and yes i am, greiving the greatest loss. and a ****** sausage and bean casserole, is not going to be, making me believe, that the world, is a fair and just place... don't you, worry about me. i reckon i'll soon be, leaving, my home and my goods and chattels and be recieving last rites, farewells and a deep,dirt bed. and that will be, fine and dandy, as long as it is, close and handy, to my beloved, Mandy. what? you're worried... about my, state of mind... will ya, just sod off, haven't i made myself clear, i am way, too busy dying, to pay you any attention...* this garden just going gangbuster hey¡¡yah huzzah!!!
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