I saw a puppet show

12 Mar 2010

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I saw a puppet show. Pretty red tears; Pretty white faces; Pretty grim; Pretty grim And Sorrowful children facades; Stocky ballerinas; Carnival dolls; Fists like… Shovels? Lifelines ascending; Wooden crosses; Black thumb marks; Curtains; Dripping nose rain and Conspicuous sniffles; Un-tuned piano tunes; Creaks; Bumps; Distant dialogue Of romance; A tiny hearse; A funeral; A top hat and gloves; Sinister moral tale; Old trick is to let them die; Drop like… Puppets?

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Live for poetry, think poetry, read poetry, write poetry, think poetry, think poetry, die for poetry (with any luck). Main influences: Joyce, Russell, Heaney, Kavanagh, Fergusson, Sorley, Mandelstam, Camus, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Bukowski,...

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