Last orders at the bar
Look at me
I'm like
A ship wreck
Lying on the sea bed
Decaying
Covered in coral and rust
Too tired
Too weary
To
navigate my way back
to
the surface
Tired
of trying to avoid the bends
And
the turbulent... – by Paul Marauder | 46 Views added 1 month ago
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I drove all the way down
to Miami Dade County
In my banged up old car
that rattles and hums
Tossing empty beer bottles
onto the freeway
while singing we’re The boys
from the county hell
I wear dirty shoes
And a broken hat
I can fit all... – by Paul Marauder | 5 Views added 9 months ago
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I get into my car
and
I put it in gear
But
the clutch won’t Work
and
the wheel won’t steer
I
try to run
but
I don’t get far
Now
I’m stuck In the middle
between
two red cars
Sometimes you just run
out
of gasoline
just
... – by Paul Marauder | 8 Views added 9 months ago
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She's the eternal optimist
An enthusiastic oenophilist
She's a town hall planner
And a life enhancer
She has zeal
She has zest
She wears a Che beret
And a moral vest
She reads Marx
& Engels
She prefers crisps
to Pringles
She's... – by Paul Marauder | 6 Views added 9 months ago
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Yeah he might look like a vagrant
with his unwashed hair
His clothes caked in spoiled food
His dirty shoes
His faraway eyes
And broken spirit
But I remember him years before a
thief stole his mind
The first time I met him he looked... – by Paul Marauder | 64 Views added 10 months ago
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I put on my Panama hat then my snake
skin suit
my diamond bolo tie and my alligator boots
Then I go out dancing every night I drink 12 shots of Bourbon then 12 snake bites
But take heed my friends of the western skies
And take heed my... – by Paul Marauder | 34 Views added 10 months ago
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The boy lies down on his bed
His head resting on his hand
She tucks him in and softly kisses
his cheek goodnight
She lies beside him
He falls into a deep sleep
But she does not sleep
She is vigil
She is there
The sound of the bed... – by Paul Marauder | 182 Views added 10 months ago
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By the rivers embankment the river rats awaken
Arid and parched they congregate
Their colourless charcoaled frames smudge and blend into the grubbing landscape.
Dank and filthy they sit by the bulrushes
in quiet desideratum drinking from... – by Paul Marauder | 60 Views added 10 months ago
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The thunder clouds roared like a jet plane
I was ambushed by the sleet and the rain
I found myself in Watertown where everyone
looked like Popov the Sunshine clown
I wear a Stetson hat and I strap a gun
Ain't no cowboys left in the land of... – by Paul Marauder | 24 Views added 11 months ago
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He said the Earth was flat
I said the Earth is what?
Flat?
How could you say that?
How dumb is that?
He said it wasn’t The Saudis
who flew into the towers
But it was little green men all the way
from Mars
Oh yeah!
He says you can... – by Paul Marauder | 17 Views added 11 months ago
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I never tried to reach for the stars
I was always happy living in every bar
I’m still searching for a secret sign
But the clock on the wall says it’s
closing time
I crawled home to the sound of a crooked beat
I saw bones on the corner of... – by Paul Marauder | 20 Views added 11 months ago
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Driving across Airline highway
on our way to Baton Rouge.
Tuba all polished and shining
is riding shotgun with me.
To pass the time I sing sea shanties
like “down down where the dead men
go” and “Haul away Joe” .
While Tuba sits... – by Paul Marauder | 25 Views added 11 months ago
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We’re a new party
The ‘We don’t give a f*ck party’
I mean we really don’t give a flying f*ck
Couldn’t give a monkeys
Couldn’t give a toss
About any of you
We are the only party that tells
The truth
Tells it how it is
We promise you f*ck... – by Paul Marauder | 87 Views added 11 months ago
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Where’s the ambulance?
the medic?
the nurse?
Can’t you see
I’m f*cking dying here
Are you blind?
I need an ambulance
A doctor
A nurse
What the f*ck is he doing here?
Who let him in?
Where’s my Mother?
Mother
Mother
I want my mother
... – by Paul Marauder | 229 Views added 11 months ago
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A ship sails away from the quay
Sails on without me
I watch it as it navigates across the
Vast Ocean
until it disappears into the Horizon
A train rolls out of the station
Rolls on without me
I listen to it as it thunders along
the track... – by Paul Marauder | 19 Views added 11 months ago
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Xmas eve 2020 was the coldest night for
a decade.
And a harbinger of doom for anyone without
shelter
Tyler Townsend was one of the unlucky ones
not to get refuge from the artic weather.
As he trudged his broken body through the
broken... – by Paul Marauder | 43 Views added 11 months ago
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I reassembled myself with what
had remained
I jettisoned the broken parts and
the briefs that were stained
I cleared out the attic of all the
clutter & clatter
The dusty dirty books and stuff
that don't matter
I burned all my bridges... – by Paul Marauder | 21 Views added 11 months ago
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Lately I've been having these dreams
where I meet my old form teacher from
my youth in the public toilets of a pub
I used to frequent.
I imagine him saying something
visceral to me and sneering.
And as I zip up my flies I hit him
... – by Paul Marauder | 28 Views added 11 months ago
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Through small holes in the billet
walls
thin rays of light caress the face of
the Barefoot boy
Outside empty bottles and jars
mingle with abandoned old cars.
Stray cats roam the street while
tall uncut grass stands firm in the
... – by Paul Marauder | 32 Views added 1 year ago
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I’ve read and been inspired by the
ancient stoics like Zena of Citium,
Seneca and Epicitus
The great writers like Dostoevsky,
Tolstoy, Joyce, Dickens and Twain
The great poets too like the Beats,
Whitman, Hardy, Shelley and Keats
... – by Paul Marauder | 43 Views added 1 year ago
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In my Towel
bathing trunks
goggles
In my pocket
a pen knife
spare change
one Bazooka Joe
Now I’m good to go
I don’t care
that the cold
swimming pool
is always freezing
that the broken
lockers are never
fixed
that my dirty... – by Paul Marauder | 51 Views added 1 year ago
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I sit quietly at the banks
of the river smoking my
last cigarette.
I talk to the river and the
river talks back to me.
My Storm coat does its
best to keep me warm
and dry
But I am cold and alone.
My thoughts are dank like
... – by Paul Marauder | 54 Views added 1 year ago
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On board the Jolly Roger
the fickle crew
listen to their fickle captain
as he speaks
with his fickle tongue.
Spitting blame and phlegm
on everyone
and everything
His capricious manner
destroys any harmony
amongst the crew.
For... – by Paul Marauder | 174 Views added 1 year ago
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I watched you climb into the ring
for the last time,
You were all washed up and past
your prime
Long gone was your speed and flair
your matinee looks and pompadour
hair
Gone was your smiling eyes and
cheeky grin your body now all... – by Paul Marauder | 30 Views added 1 year ago
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The dank sky
exploded a deluge
of rain
Spider lightning flashed
from black stratiform
clouds
A cavalcade of trombones
thundered
over the charcoal Landscape
of the
Benbradagh mountains
In the storm
a solitary figure
trudges... – by Paul Marauder | 73 Views added 1 year ago
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I drank 10 pints of the Devil’s ale
in the Thirsty Dog
On the way home I stopped at
Drakes
Off license for a bottle of Knob
Creek straight Rye
I sat in stupor listening to Ride of
the Valkyries on Spotify
As the night descended I... – by Paul Marauder | 15 Views added 1 year ago
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