thelonehighway

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thelonehighway
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There's stuff I need to get out of my brain. Simple as that.

  May 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 9 total

The Gothic Heat Wave Scenario.

It's too fucking hot,
it's like walking through soup.
My feet are on fire
and my hair starts to droop.

My eyeliner runs
and my face is all red.
Like a big shiny beetroot
with eyebrows instead.

I'm sick of it all,
it's too hot to handle....

– by Mark Broughton.

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Downwardly Mobile.

My chosen career path, mediocrity,
has become an art of virtuosity.
To maintain my wages in such stasis, and
float in poverty on a permanent basis
has taken such effort, such non-achievement,
such lack of ambition to be almost vehement.

A...

– by Mark Broughton.

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Bad Toaster.

At home we have a toaster
that won't do what it's s'posed ta.
It only toasts half the bread,
the other side is cold instead.
Midway through the toasting process
one has to turn the bread around.
I only do it under protest,
breakfast shouldn't...

– by Mark Broughton.

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Upstairs.

The girl that I love, she lies sleeping upstairs.
She asks nothing of me but to join her there.
Some sign of affection, or token of warmth
for a willing companion to face any storm.

The girl that I love, she lies sleeping upstairs.
She's...

– by Mark Broughton.

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Death Wish.

I could make a ground glass sandwich, just add a little Mustard,
put the World out of it’s misery, and top this gloomy bastard.

I could tie a millstone round my neck and dive into a gully,
or drop a piano on my head, with a clever system of...

– by Mark Broughton.

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added 1 year ago
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