Short Hatted Poems

they've catered to crowds riotously angry 
and brimming red hatted stadiums
but for wee places of worship
they're nailed shut with bullchit
it was never about safety, but ratings...

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A gal & guy,Rogers & Astaire
Hollywood's strictly come dancing pair,
Escapist glamour,without a care-
On  diet of beauty we once were fed,
With long-legged Ginger & top-hatted Fred....

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construction site
a 
      parade                                      
                   of  
                        orange hatted
                                              gnomes...

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Cut out of black paper
Japanese
Thrown before a sky

Of night milk
Janitress of a
Lower house

One toothed,
Point hatted,
Flying in front of a 

Victorian curtain
Two thirds storm,
One third dark....

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You hatted being called my brother or friend,
Than called you my neither brother nor friend,
You were very good in Chemistry and attend,
You like to care disabilities peopple like brind,
One thing today I want to understand,
When you was speaking about me with friend,
What about you feelings? Please do not pretend....

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big hatted cat in a
hip city flat
remembering that
he was in a big
city
flat

not patient
like some other
dead cat

just not sure who's flat...or
why somebody else's

leaning over the balcony rail
looking across the 
city

smoking a cigarette

shifting through too many
impressions

responding with
so little
effect...

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Autumn is a frozen church
We wait at heavy doors
That smell of rust,

Not a Moon cold enough
To be called heartless
Or breathclouds of old steam

More an estuary of
Dumped mist afraid to ice;
The taste of wax on your lips,

A frame of hair round a
Hatted face, out steps as slow
As if we must tread water,
 
You are ice and rain and
The first crystals and even
More than this, beside me.

(for Carl Sharpe)...

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