The cat
licked the tears
from my eyes
and the blood
from the hole
you left in my heart
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Notes:
1. Written on March 18th, 2019
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blood
There was blood in the garden
thick across the stepping stones
and paving slabs
echoes of a fight here last night
or the aftermath of one elsewhere
between
what?
cats
and foxes
cats
and birds
cats
and cats
or a hedgehog perhaps
dragged out of the dead leaves
beneath the bamboo
carved open
by tooth
and claw
and carried away
from this fenced-in prison
to someone else’s lair
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Notes:
1. Written on September 15th, 2017
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I watched them
sleeping
in their cot
and every time
the sheets stopped moving
between one breath
and the next
I held my own
and hoped
and prayed
that this was not
to be
the last
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Notes:
- Filmed and written on December 17th, 2018
- The music box was my sisters
- From 1976 or so
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There was a time
there is always a time
when you were happy
And you see it clearer
brighter
louder
with every passing day
that drifts
clean
away
It takes on the form
the mythic scope
of a utopia
And you would give anything
to get back there
to get back
to a life
that life
that vibrant fucking life
But you can’t go back there
because it never existed
and when you were there
it was another
earlier
world
that you wanted
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Notes:
1. Written on September 27th, 2018
2. This is the original version of this
3. Which I’ve decided I like better now
4. A week or so later
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Eaten once dead
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Notes:
1. Written on January 27th, 2010
2. Although the first line was written two years before
3. On August 31st, 2008
4. On the cover of a notebook
5. In which I subsequently wrote this down
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