Long Disinfected Poems

IT’S A MAD WORLD In a Lancashire Accent.

I went to the Confectioners today, there was a long queue outside, a metre apart, and it had started to rain. 
The assistant behind the counter had shiny...

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the episode took place near the sewer
the boy lay lifeless on the stiff ground
his white clothes dipping in red
a rowdy mob encircled him
like vultures awaiting the surrender of a fighting  spirit
his horrified eyes gave...

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The all Christian female pop group, Sunday's Children recorded their hit songs
on the same recording label as their secular revivals It's Just Our Destiny's.
Because of the  world-wide popular latest anti-Semantic popular slogan,

"From the river...

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"Laid Upon Their Alters" 

qhapaq hucha 
it begins at birth
the most precious 
resource of all

we are registered,
audited, one by one
under the rod measured
by lizard rule 

the capacocha 
children of complacency
dumbed down, some
thorns, uppity, removed

heads counted...

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I

I am disinfected, sanitised from touch and eyes
Do not hold me. I am Bakelite and you smolder
Sat solid, the wall cold against my spine. A back-rest 
To concrete electrocution. 
I am distilled from Suburbia and...

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We ride the cattle rail  Not knowing exactly what lay ahead. For weeks there's 
been no heat,  No bathrooms and we've barely been fed.  We arrive at our 
destined location.  Sobibor...Sobibor...Sobibor,...

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THANK YOU FOREVERMORE

Everywhere you step
That is where I am
With my oxygen hose
Under your feet again
When you are walking into a room
My oxygen hose catches your eye
You see it dragging on the ground
As you gently step...

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they die for you
at night, alone, they cry from your noose
infants born starving on your military base
Usually lawyers marvel at these various cases
Still they die for you
Faced down in the devils tears
Last goodbyes from your...

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They wiped my thoughts
with antiseptic hands,
wrung my mind through linen logic
and hung me between breakfast
and scheduled silence.
Every hour—accounted for.
Every spark—neutralised.
Brainwashed.

Hope came in timed doses—
measured in milligrams
and dispensed with a paper cup
and plastic smile.
I swallowed the...

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The village air is pristine, filtered and non polluted.
It is from all the germs, diseases and bacteria disinfected.
The country folks are simple, natural, serene and beautiful.
They are unaffected by ego, vanity but are truly cheerful.
God...

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Through the bank account
over painted naivety

it is so intense just to be here
between look and expectation
knowing
I'm just one step from alighting
to be
your personal abyss

afford me completeness
in the same way that
high ranked husband
of well polished wife
pays...

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Sun. sun. sun.
Shining brighter than the moon
The very thing I have always hidden behind
 always longing to be as, bright as, shone as, loved as, longed for and exposed 
I let him touch me a...

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Six a.m. the alarm click has rung
Time to wake up, time to start being mom
Wake up children
Get dressed, brush your teeth
We haven't a moment to lose
Time to start moving those feet
Jump in the mini-van
Start the...

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Adjust and move four words for worth/ 
Aghast at July 4th I’ll power forward north / 
Away from what’s been uncovered worse than I’ve ever been coerced
I devour and nourish as the demeanor looks gorgeous/
He...

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Save your energy...
I've found my center a place to sit amongst the absent.
My mother-my best thought; says she made this all just for us.
Love your enemy...
My father killed my dog-my best friend, lost.
My father killed...

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A month before my life began
A man decked out in robes of black 
Gave the world the chance to end
My life before its start.

What is this strange philosophy
Predicated on convenience
That made the choice of death...

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Willing, future wraps in entailment
music playing tricks on the mind
black to light 
back to black
distilling moments 
bleeding 
infernal internal attack

slow lit cigarettes 
ignition, pain felt recognition
burnt, a disarray of haze 
cutting in and out of...

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I was very young,
Laying wrapped in cotton sheets.
Eyes heavy with soft happiness
Touched by the warm hand of a summer sun.
Breathed on by flower scented air
Cradled into a smiling sleep.

I was grown up
Laying wrapped in damp...

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They came with their white jump suits and nets,
changing your known reality,
washed and disinfected,
special jacket.

Teach you to obey the laws of God and society.
Hey baby! Hey baby!
Hold on! Wait!
Not yet!

They strapped you to a big...

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Quick clay
A dog sent in
Looking for survivors
Given the last hug?
Hunting for people
Silent in quick clay

In a delivery room
She was real and she was perfect
Stillborn
A song played in the room next door
Dobie Gray – Drift away
No...

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The Playground of the Opulent

Today we drove to a posh enclave in Algarve
where the rich live sheltered behind tall walls,
pristine roads were empty not a speck of dust.
They came here to seek privacy not wanting...

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Six feet apart
       Or
Six feet under

Distance lends enchantment
             While
Closeness creates calamity

Watching for symptoms
    ...

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She had never seen a real torture,
picture a gentle breeze entering,
the walls were smooth and white,
and the old rule was ignored,
to terrify
you need to look terrifying.

She felt her face collapse
into surprise,
her legs parted,
and there was...

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you were crossing my mind the other day
a part of me just wanted to shoot you a text and say hey 
but i knoe we left on unfriendly terms
all the love build just stopped and...

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The bigger things are obvious
And are to be expected,
Like sickness, job loss and the fear
Of what’s not disinfected.

But little things I haven’t seen
In ages have affected
The way I feel and I don’t see
How they will...

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