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6. john donne died

31/7/2016

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No human is a Brexit, entire of itself,
Everyone is a piece of the internet, a part of the Web,
If a line of code is lost, washed away by white noise,
The global village is the less, as well as if a webpage were,
As well as any of thine facebook friends or thine own were,
Because I am involved in humanity
And therefore never send to know
For whom twitter trends
It trends for thee.
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5. Sean Bean Memes

30/7/2016

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​Take my hand, sweet friend,
And come with me
To search for
Prince’s music
On YouTube;
We won’t find any,
I know,
He was very strict
About copyright
Restrictions
But I feel he would’ve been
Happy
For us to try.

Come with me, my child,
Let us run now,
Let us run through
The long grass
Of Summer:
There are Pokemons
To collect
Even though
I have read
That Sex Offenders
Are using the game
To entrap children.

Don’t run away, my love,
The song that I sing
Will soon be a ringtone
As famed as
That one from Nokia;
All our dreams
Are doomed
To become
Sean Bean themed memes:
Mostly variations on
“One does not simply
Walk into Mordor!”
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4. andrew marvell died

28/7/2016

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The garden looks at me with ill disguised contempt
The grass grows long with disapproval
A broken wheelbarrow rusts under the tree
Impatient for its own (never-going-to-happen) removal.

The flowerbeds look sick with hate
The daffodils nod in mute condemnation
The potted plants and vegetable patch
Are demanding an immediate explanation.

The cat quietly tells me I’m a twat.
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3. perspective

27/7/2016

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A tiny ocean crashes
Beneath the short sky
On a minuscule island, a flake,
Battered by fiddly weather,
Close to the compact continent,
All spread over
The crumb of the world, a mote,
Caught in the stifling closeness
Of a tight solar system,
Twisting in a narrow galaxy,
A low ceiling-ed infinity:
A tiny universe
A tiny tiny universe
A speck.
 
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2. Day 2

27/7/2016

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​This is only my 2nd day
And I’m already stuck
I’m tempted to break some prose
And try my luck
 
The fact of the matter is
No one likes poetry
Perhaps I ought to admit
That also includes me
 
Look at the insistence on rhyme
Look at the self-regard
Look for a point if you like
But don’t look too hard.
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1. the idiots are winning

26/7/2016

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The idiots are winning
The stupid fucking bastards
They talk about progress
Then head off full speed backwards
 
Facts are anathema
Nuance is ignored
They explode with murder
Are too easily bored
 
The idiots are winning
I’m not being facetious
Welcome to the voluntary extinction
Of the specious
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