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a kind of requiem people who have vanished pressed into poems in small defunct magazines still breath sometimes athwart my dreams to turn them into nightmares like Boadicea's double-decker bus brought out to be a shoppers' special with scythe blades in its wheels well what the hell is it for anyway? poets better by far than I at this art or craft or what you will of making a pageant out of pigswill long since have given up poetry preferring usually to die.
STEVE SNEYD

TRIBUTARY FRACTIONS

a kind of requiem

people who have vanished
pressed into poems in small defunct magazines
still breath sometimes athwart my dreams

to turn them into nightmares like
Boadicea's double-decker bus
brought out to be a shoppers' special

with scythe blades in its wheels

well what the hell is it for anyway?

poets better by far than I
at this art or craft or what you will
of making a pageant out of pigswill

long since have given up poetry
preferring usually to die.

STEVE SNEYD

from
The Hallamshire & Osgoldcross Poetry Express #4

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