He-She-It-They
...My gran doesn’t ‘get’ this woke society
I told her that there’s a new sobriety
We went for a walk to see what we would see
And show her we all can be what we will be
Men can be women and girls ...
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Categories:
gawped, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Pink Perforated Ping Pong Balls
...Alfie was the first son of a billionaire
Who bought a golden cradle for his son and heir
There was no expense that daddy wouldn’t spare
And perforated ping pong balls didn’t feature there
On Al...
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Categories:
gawped, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Tenement Years
...Reared in ruins,
& East London brick dust,
lard spread on bread.
My figure daubed
by days of oil and dirt,
a boy by railroad tracks -
wrong side.
Trains clattered past
pumping smutty fumes.
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Categories:
gawped, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Absurd
...To me, you are purely ephemeral;
We are irrelevantly real.
And I am left with no one but myself,
With this hollowness I feel.
And still, I am hardly here,
Just a mass of scattered free radical...
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Categories:
gawped, allusion, introspection, life, muse,
Form: Rhyme