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Ant Mar 2015
B itter, hot and strong
L uxuriously inviting
A fter a long hard day
C affeine arousing senses
K icking back with Aaaahhh

C omfort invited in style
O ffering warmth and stimulation
F ragrance of coffee beans
F uming the nose, seducing the mouth
E agerly anticipating that first taste
E xquisite rich flavour appreciated
A contest entry on another site
“Our apparatchiks will continue making
    the usual squalid mess called History:
        all we can pray for is that artists,
        chefs and saints may still appear to blithe it.“

W.H. Auden, “ Moon Landing”

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Let us happily and heedlessly
i.e blithely
send the pundits, panderers, and pussycats
and and the ill tempered ones,
the “like~seekers”
whose factual are not actuals
But
opinions gussied up
as itter-bitter-litter factoids on opioids,
of little value


yeah
they’re  history

seek not likes or to be liked,
make your own history or herstory.,
and you will be admired
'tis a far far better thing…
if you don’t like a poem, keep quiet
And just move on
And far away
Matthew Randell May 2015
L itter strewn streets and rusted vehicle chassis

O pen doors, streets paved with the gold of city life

N egative thoughts clouding people's minds

D ays turn to nights, the beautiful full moon

O paque sky, clouded with smog

N ever ending

— The End —