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Planche de Chair Cuite

...She was not invited

She was arranged

They never wanted Jasmine 
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap 
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries 
while th...

Death, where is thy sting

...Dead good
Dead not good
Dead so very good
Dead or alive not so good
Dead in aspic
Jellified  so fantastic...

What's On the Menu

...And with her “Chicken Nipple Dip”
                                and crackers set to side
She checked her table once again
                           and smiled a smile of pride

The ‘Duck Tong...

Bemoaned

...He is dead, many confirmed.
I am sad for the people who knew him,
though I never did.
to me he will always be 'what's his name.'

He died peacefully in the eye of a tornado,
he died on a bus to...

Remember the Emperor

...Remember the emperor 

In Japan, especially in Tokyo, people are a strange mix of efficiency.
Young people are adolescents until they are forty living in an aspic
of western pop culture that does...

Dead Beetle Walking

...How small can a beetle get?
A minuscule black dot of a predator
Plodding (as beetles do
when not chewing up other insects)
around the lip of a bowl,
clapping together stubby mandibles 
swatting...

He's Got Verbal Diarrhoea

...Mr Bombastic 
So sycophantic 
Spins discs of plastic
He’s so sarcastic -
Thinks he’s fantastic! 

He’s on a health kick
Eat prunes in aspic....
His guts turn spastic
Diarrhoea qu...

Forgiveness Feels Like a Rotted Grave

...She left him angry and alone

Broken and in despair

His heart a shredded bleeding mess

His feelings for her were bitter

They were toxic and cold

As he felt the knife she had driven

D...

Eppur Si Muove

...(As Galileo left the session of the Inquisition
at which he had been forced to deny his own
discovery that the earth orbited the sun, and
had to "admit" that the earth was static, he
murmured, "e...

Paddy Murphy's Wake

...The priest had been here earlier and the rosary was said
and relatives and friends in single file were offering condolences.
"Sorry for your troubles," one by one they said, 
bending over Maggie M...

Answer

...nono i took a sleep
the crusades mine as I suffered not for you to take a ride
pray the pastor not mine as i will explode the wonder to be left on earth

for what

water my garden and leave me ...

The Ice Swan Lands

...The Bride under the left wing; The groom under the right
The Ice Swan , landing on the lake in the Early Morning Night

Her feathers , intricately patterned in a Moment of LOVE Forever the thinnes...

St Petersburg In January

...ST.   PETERSBURG   IN   JANUARY



Frozen stillness of canals:
Venice    in   aspic.

Golden-domed church......
Heaven’s    bulbs    auric.

Palaces everywhere  -
History   majestic....

Fit For a Sun King *

...A lobster aspic chaud-froid
un petit pate
Beef with gold-leaf spangles
a morel suffle
edible candle *
a chateau
Bow!

*Louis XIV
*Chocolate truffles to you & me...

Spare Timeshare

...I diddn't notice my mother's jewelry she wore
As funeral procession becomes vain bonfire
The mask older becoming amber aspic
As more relics are worn more frequently.
Diamonds are too much for the...

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