how can I scoff this giving of unreal?
if it were mine I would dearly give it back
walk away with a turnip on my neck.
I am loose enough to swim.
a skin-graph on the groin
my mother bathed as sweeheart
in the year it took no time to drown a ball,
as tall as babycham
she whistled as I dared myself
to speak of her past tense
under lock and key?
it made no sense to hide;
she pushed her science past the great white tongue.
it was the poodle in her eyes
a gothic smile of yesterday's today
haunts my eyes by fireside
burning like a log;
it was the gift of wood that made me loathe her more.
bound by love on the fluid of a glow
with our heads caved in,
I had no heart
you had a fiddle for a nose
and never cared four colours of my snow.
look me now dear mother.
I have fathered horse and varnished both their toes!
they are my miracle of touch in our loveless swamp.
they are yours o dearest mother
to darn one sock and walk to the forest inn.
it is noon-tide and the mouths are open wide.
we have fish to feed.
the birds are all too thin;
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Author:
Melvin James (Pseudonym) (
Online) - Published: June 26th, 2024 13:11
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Superb work.
thank you my friend
Nostalgia you just gave me a view of my own mother and the babycham we used to share when I was very young, she only ever drank babycham. I love this dearest Melvin. 🌹
how well you read my words Teddy...
thank you.
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