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    "Bore Bore"
    By Sean Cumming

    Bore a whole in me
    Boredom bores
    A deep French sigh
    In black and white
    Cover your eyes
    Now speak
    Inevitability shakes like
    A dancer high on mdma
    And that new drug you told
    Me about
    Bore oh bore
    Bore the slick street
    Bore the twisted ankle
    Bore the fallen angle
    Bore the geometric pattern
    Bore the choice of beer
    Bore the young dreadlocked
    Sweet youthed middle aged
    Aging agitating activist
    Bore myself into a hole
    Bore deeply, longing
    Live bore maggots writhe
    Alive in the bore
    Swanning over heaving
    Browed new sweetened
    With 80’s patterns
    Licking turpentine breath
    Showing v’s of flesh
    Louche and swollen footed
    Spouting Kafkaesque, Zola
    Ememememe yeah so
    Checkootmaband offal
    Au fait with outré dez rez
    Resisting taste shorn of
    Buds, bloomless, rotting in the pot
    On the windowsill where I’d
    Said I would take care of it
    Buy a fresh pot find some
    Earth to cover it bring
    It light
    Give it
    Love
    Sing
    Inches from the leaves
    Breath life
    In music
    Warbled notes
    Seee oooohhh twwoo
    Too you
    Yoouuu who are missed
    Placed somewhere
    Like the woollen hat I will need
    For the coming winter
    Will be harsh and heavy
    With sleet slushing in shoes
    Damp clothing drying
    Purple knuckled struggle
    Through a hail of cuts
    Some small papers
    Some large wounds
    Find me find me find me
    Let me find the strength to get out of bed
    Alone
    Not alone
    Lonely
    My phone dazed
    twitters
    Incessantly
    Joke on joke on joke
    A pile of inadequate explanations
    Bore
    A quaffed tailored smile
    Bore
    A serpentine laugh
    All ess emm ess aaah
    Bore
    The sound of upstairs
    Bass heavy vibration
    Bore
    Wild snorting
    Guzzling truffles
    Thick bristles
    Headless mounted
    Put it in the study
    Put it on expenses
    Expend fluid over
    Bound, supplicant dark skinned
    Creatures yearning for flabby
    Translucent members
    Erect in service to the queen
    Simpering servile boys
    Locked in cupboards in
    Ten thou a year boarding schools
    Since the sixties growing older
    Bitter, xenophobes foaming over
    Party whips, power
    Starved thrashing
    Over scarred skin
    Over unborn foetuses
    Over single mothers
    Over gay couples
    Over the ill
    The dispossessed
    The starving
    The disabled
    The abled
    The young
    The old
    The not so old
    The not so young
    Those who work
    Those who want to work
    Those who can never work
    A thrash for each
    Whack
    Thrash
    Tear at the flesh
    Thrash
    Bore
    Lash us together you bore
    Bind us with venom and spittle
    Tie us with tired tirades
    Strip the paint from the façade
    New built crumbled ruins
    Facsimile plastic tollbooths
    To a endless motorway
    Of self serving self service
    A starving exhausted beast
    Ancient brittle ribs
    Grasping fingers into the void
    Slobbering onto the remains
    The dust of the bones of a starling
    Clawless, one razor tooth
    Hangs stalagmite
    In the yawning cave of its gapping maw

    — 6 months ago with 1 note
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