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The crust of wholemeal bread
zig-zags around the lawn
propelled by the random pecking
of all the garden sparrows.
Most men lead undistinguished lives.
Very few achieve any fame.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls;
you wouldn't know their name.
Snails are higher class than slugs
because they own their own homes.
Life is a terminal disease
with beneficial side effects.
Terminal
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What do you do
when there's nothing to look forward to?
How do you cope
when there isn't any hope?
The sprays of green buds
on the elderberry bush
look like neat models
of atomic molecules.
It doesn't matter who is right.
It only matters what is right.
To view the past as discrete decades
is topiary trying to shape unruly years.
All that fuss for a few minutes of friction.
It's like they say - you have to laugh
to stop yourself from crying.
I never told so many jokes
as when my wife was dying.
Recent culture
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when children think they're adults
and adults act like kids.
Repeated thawing and re-freezing of the level snow
has propagated a tufted carpet of icy 'plants'
evenly spaced with sharp toothed pointed 'leaves' -
a new white lawn of frozen 'succulents'.
While novelty is exciting,
routine is oh so soothing.
Better an escort, prostitue
with a real woman's personality
than dark, abusive fantasies,
macho masturbatory.
