Long Sanitised Poems

(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...

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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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The man who never listened to the troubles of his wife

fell down the escalator at King's Cross station.

No-one met his eyes,

as he lay sickly on the concrete,

though someone did push his shiny briefcase towards him

as...

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Within the shadows of darkened lanes and alleys, 

There i dwell hidden from sight ,sounds and smell, 

Humankind knows me not walk away as if they are shot, 

My eyes see what goes on kicking...

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Ripped and torn from parents arms

Causing psychological long term harm

Children being left traumatized

In detention centers full of cages

Various kids of various ages

Susceptible now to sexual and mental abuse

Who in hell was it it that gave...

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I washed my hands this morning when I visited the loo,
Then went and touched the tap, which you really shouldn’t do,
And then I scratched my nose, because I had an itch, 
Then with my bare...

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From neglect comes deviation, electrifying radiation, like a leaf in the shadow,
Drying stanza so bore-some, a bit much candidly said,
In the Sun thinly it is spread,
As it comes to - an End.
Unpropitious almost as a...

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Like the mediaeval skirmish, defeat with stale dismay
Adjacent to every dwelling the silent donor plague;
Masquerades of scarlet doom as those who pass away
Unhygienic circumstance with umpteen reasons vague.

Black Death buboes mystery and evil stench of...

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Before death I stand, inside a hallway of enduring shame
not waiting on judgement, for there is none for such crimes,
just abandoned forever pondering worthlessness,
Everyone’s dead 

Butchered in narrow streets, along Jerusalem way 
slaughtered countless men...

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BOYS!

Unlike the boys that crossed the Somme
We will, we will, we will go on
We will go on to live a life
To raise a family, to love a wife
To feel the good, to feel the bad
To...

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Rows of green spaces in a row

Trying to control natures flow,

all things wild have to conform,

To fit in with accepted norm.

Cut down trees they block out the sun,

Trim the lawn curtailing fun,

Chemical additives help it...

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It happens over there,
a suburb, a state or half a world 
or more away from where I live 
in a quiet street with roses and hedges 
hanging over front fences 
with newly planted trees spaced
along...

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History books rewritten,
pages turned, truths overturned.
Past reconstructed.

Memories are planted like seeds,
carefully cultivated.
Reality harvested.

Leaders cast long shadows,
dark spots conveniently erased.
Selective illumination.

Monuments rise and fall,
stone faces weather time.
Legacies carved in flux.

Archives are sealed tight,
skeletons locked in national...

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Before it was Camp Justice and a U.S. military base,
Diego Garcia was a peaceful paradise, a beautiful place.
The U.S. and U.K. wanted the island swept and sanitised,
Depriving the community from basic supplies.
Never an uninhabited island,...

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Behind sweetest smiles, deceit does hide!
All on a summer day.
A friendly nod, yet one knows not
The lot that waits along the way.
No fashioned track or stair to go
Or signpost to consult.	
The way is life, the...

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We all have beginnings somewhere,
a place where the soul first took root
and drew its history, fixed a compass 
point, a pin in a map to mark its home.
For me it was here
where the horizon began
in...

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  Come to live in Kent
  A lovely place to be.
  Close to the continent.
  Next the lovely sea.

  The garden of England
  growing houses fast.
  Come to...

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They move from house to house
with a mask on each child's face,
knocking on the doors and then
all shouting 'Track or trace?'
The people opening the doors
all have masks on as well,
who's celebrating Halloween, well
nobody can tell.
The...

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Consumption



Scurrying between gleaming malls,
sniffing through the latest bargains,
that are crucified onto sterile walls,


crawling amidst those sanitised aisles,
glazed eyes darting frenetically, hungry,
leaving not a trace on the polished tiles,


gnawing at the endless, dead queues,
shirts, skirts, jeans...

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Nature tamed, organised, tidied and serving
Consummately sanitised for human consumption
Nature bent unnaturally to suit the human nature
Every pretty maid and ducks…in a row
 
Florid facilities for townsfolk to fantasise 
Looking without seeing, treading without looking
Stepping...

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