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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth." Voltaire. Yeah, right.

…and then she died during a fierce heatwave 

 

Flat lined, tomb side 

‘Toss my ashes to the northern lights 

to drift among birches and be buried by snow’ 

 

Arrested for Drink Dreaming 

 

Poured myself into vodka puddles 

hoping for tender poetry rain, 

but words were mere reflection 

in dripping water on gravestones 

 

Talking to the Murdered About Poetry 

 

She said: 

‘I like your poetry 

but hate your poems’  

so wrote her lipstick love letter  

down spine of another 

 

We Are the Last Europeans 

 

Lonely in Barcelona 

panic attack Paris 

Munich madness 

Rome whores, 

continent drifts as 

snow over girl singing in car wreckage 

 

Destination Sunset Boulevard & Other Cheap Thrills 

 

I’s good to have an end 

to journey towards 

but it’s the journey which 

matters, in the end. 

Come fly… 

 

Cigarettes After Sex? 

 

Empty ashtray 

unstruck matches 

scratches from cruellest wind 

holds your presence in door rattles, 

smoke semaphore for blind to tast 

 

Room #127 

 

Spreading her legs, mine in between 

Outside, traffic halts 

Bed pinned, tongues flayed 

Outside, does her husband sit in traffic? 

 

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