WHAT I DO

27 Feb 2010

·plinio

WHAT I DO The tranquiliser pub Puts me to sleep Sickening horse race commentator The reaper’s incubator How many times has that cloth been ground down into that surface? Christ sakes give it a by Random spaced out jukebox Random clunking of stuff This place is a lie It’s a fraudulent image of meaning Blatant And screaming Have I pissed it all up that urinal wall? Did I have it all? Am I dreaming? What do other people do? For Christ sakes What do other people do?

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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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