Take the hard way

You take the high hand 

I’ll take the low house 

Love love love 

These impotent tensions 

In between us 

Like a eunuch 

Or a waitress 

Kick me quick 

You dilettante 

Shrunken violet 

Lost and tiny 

Like an ice cap 

Full of pilots 

Going south 

The way of birds 

Take this lethal 

Palatine longing  

Cholera kiss me

Quick as butter 

All that rancid 

Punk free radicle 

Take it like

A Roman would 

Cooled with snow 

From yonder pinnacle 

Bring it hither 

Holy Rome 

Emperor Nero 

Will not praise you 

For the favor 

Time and demons 

Eat your heart out 

Pompeii salt you

Exhibition 

You take the north face 

East of Ripon

Where the grass 

Is corrugated 

I’ll be drowning 

In the heather 

Like as not 

La Belle Dame sans 

Take the hard road 

Barn and feather 

Take the hard way 

Magnicant. 

21.03.20

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