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annh Aug 2020
old telegraph road
clickety-clack
births, deaths and marriages
tappity-tap
did you hear the news?
yackety-yak

it is my duty to inform you...
flippity-flop
the pleasure of your company is requested...
clappity-clap
at 2:03pm (AEST) Monday, weighing 6lbs 7oz...
drippity-drop

old telegraph road
yackety-yak
eighty miles of cable
tappity-tap
biographies dotted and dashed
clickety-clack
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Alicia Dec 2015
slow down                                                                                                      
something i’m not good at lately                                                        
i’d rather not                                                                                                      


yes i’m caught
yackety ******* a paralyzing something
avalanching from mouths
(our only exercise of the day)
too hateful
to be called
wor-


the gorgeous ambiguity of oxblood                                                              

i almost forgot
my love
for discussion

but when your insides break                                            
and people    well they                                                    
can’t see internal bleeding                                              
yes, i’m sure you can all relate     like that one time      you didn’t get lead  and he shared his blunt with the miniskirt        instead of you.


but when the air                                                  
quite literally escapes you                                        
and you don’t have a moment to                                  
reach out      and scream from the pain       fight                          

fight like hell for someone else’s life                            
stop the bleeding you can’t see                                
before it floods the brain                                        
and drowns his nervous system                                


and you leave him
terrified                      
you were too late.
Richard Collier May 2017
Yeah yeah yeah

I will hear from you and / or / and / / / / / / with you

Jackets flung on your branches; hair awry, mussed up

I will comment about it

(I'm gonna drink spiked yackety yack)

Giggles. Jackets gone,  jealousy comes

Cookie journey here and there

You are the jar-full never known half-empty

Juggling jerky perky jingles- lines ever single

(Funny Big Gag Bag of lol)

Brimming with oddities and chocolate chips

(I will kick you to where the words are satin ah huh!)

Let's comment / hey / why not.

Strike not the lizard my wizard-

Strike this book- but don't cool it from hot

For I will drink and I will dry it

I do not want it left (de)composing

Shut- obsolete and unimposing


I'm going to write with flesh and silken ties-

(And a lucky-horned side-brew

I do not like to spill on you)

So I will spoon it, sip, sip, swipe the eyes;

I will comment / I will drink it / I will try it / Will I not?


I'm going to speak like I'm an autumn leaf shrilly falling

Yelling calling to the tree of thought- of nought

Swaying in circumstance- until my voice is stalling till

"I will write it I will spill it I will shine I will I will I will!"

You are the ground I fall upon with

Each new leaf crashing each coffee still.
My Pixie friend
Was a rather plump little chap
Also had a bald patch
Which he hid beneath his cap

He was fluent in many languages
And could tell a good tale, or two
About his curious life in fairyland
And of his sojourn in London zoo

He road on the backs of Robins
As he had no wings to fly
Had had many a chat with fairies
As he gazed at the moon, up high

His name was Happy Horatio
He liked smiling like a clown
And told jokes, and played pranks
I never saw him frown

He loved to dance to music
And would dance the night away
Whilst quaffing mead aplenty
In the magical land of Fae

One day i asked Horatio
Where did his life begin
He said he remembers nothing
Other than once he was rather thin

But then he developed an appetite
For trifle, and chocolate sauce
Followed by strawberry jam, and spongecake
But got to heavy for his horse

I was sure he was much to small
To ride on a horses back
He told me it was a Shetland Pony
And that he simply had the knack

As he was able to talk in horse tongue
And asked it which way to go
His horse was a very good friend
But puzzled as it never seemed to grow

He then packed up his silken bags
Then slowly, and silently mooched around
"Ive got to now leave", said he
"Ive been summoned back to the underground"

So no more yackety yack
He smiled as he bid me farewell
"I'm returning to the land of Fae"
"Where i live in a dingly dell"

by Jemia
The bathroom mirror needs a good talking to, it started by showing me a face which said, 'good lord John, is that you, what a dreadful thing to see.
it may have been watching me take a ***.

I'd give it a smack but the **** thing would crack and that'd be seven years of bad luck for me

Anyway
I'm going to fix it for good, nail some wood over it and it won't see me again.

It'll never happen She says as she happens on by,
Why? I reply
because you're too vain
She says
and She may have point.

But
the mirror is yackety
always smiling back at me
and it still needs a slap.
it's 2:25, and i'm lying in my bed
butterflies and fairies, are circling my head
and sat on my shelves, preparing to attack
are witches and dragons, and a yackety yack
ive a digereedo and a digeree don't
and a mermaid that will, and a mermaid that won't!
ive a gorgon that talks to me, late at night
and a lady vampire, who knows how to bite
so all may not be quite as it seems
these things i see, before i enter my dreams..

— The End —