Best Bagdad Poems

 What Llama Lil Saw in Baghdad

In Llama Lil's Cafe eating crackers and Stilton 
surveying the street and reading Milton 
Sits a strange and moody itinerant 
Icon for a well-known roll-on deoderant 
Under cover spy for a  US president 
Devoid of all human sentiment...

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Beneath the window
the refuse refuses to wander,
at least not for long or far enough.
Plastic wrap floats like a bridal veil
taunting a salty breeze.
Oceans of buts..
fill an ashtray of misspent time,
blackening the arteries beneath
the cloaked skin of humanity.
Street dwellers swathed in layers of 
tattered army green...

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