Authors: Barry MacSweeney
SLENDER WAIST.
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This Harpie Queen’s makeup flow. Her eyes dream. Her dry gin mouth lies.
Gamboge pink you’ve rubbed against in a long time.
Ribbed
(wool, acrylic flamingo two piece on xerox
Sue
shredding letters from a shredded
heart), torn,
let’s go public, flattered in bedrooms & on
floors.
Red
piped detachable pockets, blood stroked nearly, more
DASH
than CASH inside yr wardrobe of jalouse
cullote
evenings, tweed
legs.
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Crocodiling pleated fleshfolds. Filament bulbness. Stark
schoolchild stockingtops
I’ve never slipped clean. STARLIT BRAS
& shimmy lichen
gumboots (buckles
& studs).
QUILTED BRAND-NEW RAINCOAT’S VELVET BELT UNDONE.
Kiss her 1980 strongly-stitched pale shirt.
Love the Dirt.
She wore a kingfisher suede cape
& the added machismo of a man’s big silver stretch strap Rolex
Which
tells
the
Time
On her Ankles of Fire.
OBSIDIAN HEARTACHE drapes her in a scarlet Blouse.
Punkititi Amadeus moanings
tipped with skin.
Mad weather bluesuede pumps of Thea Cadabra, metal
pink beads shimmertexing
Inca sprints,
patent lips Undone.
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Deborah, peeptoed silverama bindings.
Maxine, courted maribou trimettes.
THREE BAR DIAMANTE STRAPPER
TOED IN TIME.
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YOU ARE SURELY A SLAUGHTERMAN’S CLOG IN A
SECRET WORLD
OF RED SUEDE FLAME
tassel loafers
&
washable yellow Satin
batshoes!
Tossed applique mirrors glass.
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SLINK, high-carbon soles.
V-fronted
Alicante piping she Strides.
Fake leopard skin
dream,
ruched heels
&
interlocking sunray
stitchings,
YOU
ONLY,
KEPT MY MIND ON
Damson
Edges slipped
&
pouring Rain.
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Mouldy toecaps bring
me
Home to
footjam just
The Same.
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ALL THE NICELY PLYWOOD GENESES & TENDER GREBES
sink sullen brows in spit pools. Gob
runs, pension becks & nauseating stream crest
waves
of life with you.
Copy wreckage, glue driblets pocking baby’s face,
women I chased on the lawns of Albion.
ALL FAILED TO REPRESENT STARLIT BODIES LYING IN THE
LIGHT FROM 16 WINDOWS.
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Albion, your women wearing shoes.
Straps & thongs, shoulder
beads, pearl
dust, viridian eyeshadow.
I cursed her nasal whining uptight stinging snaps
of ultra-real.
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Strangers disease the hearte.
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Now
you’re behind each
stupid hill
we’ll
recognise the awful night
by
STARS ALONE.
I kissed my Errors as they came.
Sucked sick real.
Tears flowing on the bastard zero ground.
Snap, cool down, wind-up furnace
nights, chewed.
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She undressed at dawn.
She kept her shoes on.
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‘I want your fuckdust children
if you want me to,
inside this carbon dress and
leather stocking
tops at Xmas when I left lovers
&
sank beneath each
footblood
sigh:
to you I CAME & COME.’
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Pray to nothing and nothing comes.
Pink specs attack the dawn
delight.
And You.
If I cannot do it Now I’ll do it
with Someone Else.
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AND SOON.
AXEING bitchette, slight me NOT
when snowings bilious come.
Tears pour dreadful vinegar on
You.
So far, casual, putrid concrete
roadways, piling
mossgloves. Tinted, bending
forlorn gravelike
excellence, humming
lips & Tongues.
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Simpleminded you have graced my Scissors
& still come clean.
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Neck chains.
Blot
love
come
now.
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Ankle fire. Foot & fingerflame.
Swear a chain you forge in life.
TO SEEK YOU NOW IS POISON SURE.
Thus you Say:
Fuck dots
grab the scene
& if you cannot
Love me now,
THE DISASTER IS PURE GREEN.
THE BULB OF YOUR HEAD SHINES IN THE STREET!!
Icey love woman, icicle, melting
dagger, chest water soaking
shirts. Blood
is what your letters say.
Fishy tongue brides
crippled into sight
of Thee: kiss each nasty limpridden
edition
of the Real.
Power heads glancing, eyelocked, secret violins, Mozart
swoops through rooms.
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WE ARE
ALL
PRIMADONNAS ESPECIALLY WHEN WE
SAY WE AREN’T (SWIRLING)!!
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Dawn telephone blistering, I
come back to you, snailchasing
slowness unsubscribed.
No council coalbunker for us Now
that we enjoy the palaces
of ULTRA REAL.
Hand in boot, & loving all the women
which you are,
NIGHT COOL.
I HAVE BEEN INSIDE YOUR OFFICIAL SCHOOL
TO REPEAT THIS LOW BEGGING.
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Dregs we suck
to name the childe Gullfingers,
dehiscent peaching
fanny, pouring,
crawling,
&
SPURIOUSLY UNREAL.
Happenings come fast. Fat flows thick. Spew spews.
Wheat porridge glue.
THIN dehiscent fuckdust streams
their eyes
when coming pollen Sun
says Yes I Love You, But
Don’t Be Bright.
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Blessed suedefoam pollutes each hearty fugitive
these cinnabar days.
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Blackfeather plaguepeople on the bastard sill.
Bitter
sallow
bricks of lime
& suicide.
Kill acid Brides.
Comb her filthy hair.
She was my Pride.
HER DEMOCRATIC RATHOLE MOUTH DELIGHTS THE GUESTS
& DRIVES
THEIR SECRET MUSIK SPARE.
BREVE ME BRYGHTE clean green pearl. Breve
brine supercharging urchin spunkette
dribblings into. All you
drab caffeine mums-to-be.
Shaved pork elbows, cumridden bras
& laddered leather. YOU
floordragged, roughened
by violence, bangled
tits & tots.
VIXENATED HORNON LIPCRAWL,
BLONDE & REALLY GINGERED UP.
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Fingered Up
crawl. Do much of nothing life. Basement
nostril windows.
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Bring my long-staffed pony, polluting filthy
gangness. TOUCHED BY, in,
bent over, creamery de la femme, overcooked
by women & worse. FLICKER
bints beyond recall.