Authors: Barry MacSweeney
Quim vibration clicked in time
to strike an axe
against yr log
where moss defends.
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Deneuveing porn
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Columbining nowhere beds go bullion bad.
Piano music in my heart explodes
with aubergines & kings.
Stupid thread sews you and alters every sleeve.
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Now you have punished me
I will eat red stones.
SMACK HER FACE O PEARLIZED AUTOMATIK
JUMBO PENCIL.
Lipstick traces
crowded then.
Salix bendings, rivers don’t Run.
SPASTIC acts defuse unFlame.
Bakelite hiplength moanings,
smashed with milk.
Bells & bones & telephones.
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Love me. Do it now Now. Startled
halfcup bras, blistering
toenail madness. Palamino
DAWN
STARcrusher.
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RACKAROCK SKULLBONE SMOKING.
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Vapodust.
FUL DEBONARE she glistered on the secret
carnal bed,
chenile wrappettes uncreased.
Mousse shadows her concealer stick.
PEARLIZED rose & suck loose powders.
Automatic tit mascara flows.
Fluid cheek brushers combine with redrust hair.
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AMBRINE SOLO PRESSED I AM NO TANGO TOY.
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raked storming cheeks with
Marjolaine.
Frozen cliffjuts scalped & frosted tourmaline.
amazing jumbo pencils for your
eyes.
Liquid amaryllis true earth ground.
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PRESSED POWDER haunting woven face a finely Speckled Cloud.
Pouring tulip champagne rain
in vivid gutters made by YOU.
Hen fur fretted, human always, stealthy
high-heeled court shoes
Creep On Me: YOU
bathe in manmilk
sweat & cloudy come.
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Tongueflames dwell
impossibly
in broken hearts.
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Bastard Zero Decade wakes you UP.
Nectarine Nothing
will happen again
if we don’t love.
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Praline justice eats the childbeater
HOME.
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SO SMOTHE HER SYDES FAR LIT TO PUSH THE
POYSON DOWN & TANGILL ME NO MORE.
DEWYNE, fordloked luf-daungere
pryvy perle withouten spot
I cast a die at Thee. her maraschino cherry
hair, streaked, no CHANCE BUNNY
SEEKING SHADE, HOLLOW
hairless armpit sleevy Sue. Her
fargone flame. To stroke
this cumin-scented
Rim. Pistol
friglumps blocked, unanimous quimchick
tracing, slowtrain
redness coming miles
from stalk to lip
WHEN LIFE BROKE UP.
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Tied it Then in secret bloodknot fury.
Lychgate wifery /sniff madfleurs/ gone sickbad.
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PULSING POMEGRANATE SHOULDERS
SHIFTED SUZE’S BEDFLAK
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Too many men when women leapt from cloven palace doors.
Crystal fucklust smothering, ash
tearings, windpinned pauline axes,
ankle talcum, bathroom suspenders stretching, digit
creamery, ALL YOU SAID & ARE
when silk slipped down.
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STEEL I wish a breasted smoke from callous embers Gone.
Skank ponies drive.
First chic slingbacks.
Raincoat glebe.
Curled and cropped.
Boygirl.
Climb for body rain.
YOU BREAK MY HEART & I’LL BREAK YOURS &
WE’LL BOTH APPLAUD.
WE’LL NAIL OUR STUPID SCISSORS TO THE FLOOR.
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Hungry broken gin-soaked faces
spew the grit of Nazi laughter, when
muscles gleam & wrench the filthy sky.
No blossom comes. Snake boots spark
the bullet earth & die.
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Swill the scum down sluices made by men.
Tear the cuff & snap each milky wrist
so bathed in stranger’s
COME.
I’ll never know their faces blunt & dumb.
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Silk manholes ruched
with swollen fuckseed streaming
in her angel veins.
Love’s a bruised knot to fix the strain
of loving Thee, where
I comb the velvet sky to set
me
Free
from poison which invades
each
pore.
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Rain snaps
the burning quiet,
&
all
the
piss-filled
clouds
gather brimming at my brow.
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TROUBLED TWOLEG CHERRY HEAD YOU LOOKED
ASKANCE
AND GASPED A PRUDENT YES
IN OUR VIRIDIAN STARLIT XEROX ROOM.
(Shampoo
dripping
from her
smiles
said
GET A GRIP)
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Firecombing brightness on Estee Lauder lips.
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Dryven out of erthe I sank a shaft.
Broken blood came
back.
Stressed matchings.
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Tongueclucks burning when
you took my arm
because I was too shy.
We split a brace of quail & never laughed
TOO HARD.
You teased and brought me from
the Edge
of
NOWHERE REALLY FAST!
No need to look for further blys in all
the firefame.
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Sleek petal on meteoric rocks.
Tight cocks
gathered
in salt sweat
drive
each
SURGE IN THEE.
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THEE WASP WITH NAKED FOTE STALKING IN MY
CHAMBRE.
THEE WHOSE BRITTIL DERTES A
RE PINKSNOW
TOES PEEKING FROM EACH DOVEGREY
BORDEAUX SHOE!!
Thee nonsense crawl has slaundered love.
THEE BLACK BRUISED & REALLY CREEPING THING
INSIDE THE HORNY FYRE.
Thee for cutting paper now & weeping bintglove madness,
thee for snow.
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Open-toed thee. Andy Pandy dungaree
Thee.
Tea grows dark as the blessed season folds.
Pouring salt on Thee.
ACONITE & DREADFUL BANE THEE THEE.
Thee skanking two-tone ponytail at six o’clock
on the
Habitat bed
Harassed lips in the trimcut morn,
O THEE RUDEGIRL PULL IT OFF COOL IN
TONIK FRECKLE DRESSES
&
BRING ME FROM THE
EDGE OF NOWHERE
REALLY FAST.
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Thee bodysnatcher.
Thee raincoat.
Thee pink military.
Thee go-go.
Thee selector.
Thee fast-speaking woman.
Thee apricot bridesmaid.
Thee Laura Ashley wonderful.
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THEE PURPLE SLIT & TALCUM TOES.
Thee ruched by stallion
seed staff.
Frill tease comings, kiss
winking cuffchunks
at the door
where we explode. THEE
whose bangles crush the root in
me.
THEE VELVET VODKA HIPS
SOAKING HONEYMILK
MOANS.
THEE WASP STING DAGGERING PULSING CELLS
WHICH
LEAP & START LIKE STARRES.
THEE QUIMFOLDS BURNING …
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Tongue touching slits
Thee.
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RAMPANT QUILLS & SIENNA FEATHERS FLAKE
ON SOARING THEE.
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There is no end to Thee.
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((This is She)).
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High damage & midnight
fifteen
(Thee,)
for
this
is
she.
JURY VET
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Started September 1979
Abandoned October 1981
Everyday, everyday, everyday, I write the book
ELVIS COSTELLO
1
. Beneath the worm’s eye view people. The clubfoot
Giro trek. Brandlings lob mucus
from the sloping lawns of Albion. Securicor
I’m only glad to be off the dole blokes, dark
glasses staring
from redundant Albion Mills (Idle), all
the broken dollpeople say: Meat meat give me
meat, boss: Boss me
Up
or I go Bostik nostril
& totally Sickrude, need to be
ordered, regular fishcakes & spam
every day I write the book
the bad book. Join the army
of deserters, council estate dogs
shitting in the beck, rimless cars, porn
videos & snuff movies on the rental
get you in the out
tray
from bondage underwear
& the bluebeat skanking jobcentre. Fast
Yosser skullbanging is It.
Fuck me Pal
hve you seen his
Totally Wired
Face. It’s a trough: brutality
mixed with blood.
2
. Spring’s
fuck all, tilth & seed, you hve to cut the grass, who
needs it? It’s just stuff. Stuff it, them.
Rockstar posies, rubbishers
of text, the bowtie number
over Chablis, how rather sweet,
muddlers on a scheme, cashgrit
grinding you Out, Access cards
pouring, cars without gear trouble,
hairdressers & boutique pimps, take you