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by Barry MacSweeney


  Hair parted

  Hair middled on the side.

  Varnished redhead rust woman hair blazing

  on the wedding party

  hotel lawn.

  —————

  You the varnished curse. You the sin

  sign.

  Small heaven of grins & girls.

  METAL HAIR

  & the doors are closed.

  JURY VET: IN VOGUE

  CHARTREUSE blanquette, shirt lavender, frayed

  mustard thongs. Brown heels on JOSE.

  Blue heels on JANE.

  Suedefur tunnels, elbow-clutching

  lambswool pylons:

  I miss you

  now. BLONDINGS

  wept

  cashmere, viridian xerox

  DARK. Cooling

  Jaguars & gold buckles

  GLEAM.

  ——————————

  Melt our pinksnow Sancerre clusterings, O

  the toes are lethal wiper

  blades, sweeping Lady Di

  country casuals

  beneath your Marks & Spencer

  kiltpin sex.

  —————

  BLACK & ZEBRA

  twopiece on much-ribbed Chrissie,

  full-stockinged

  STAR.

  ————

  I HAVE SEEN THIS FAR.

  ————————————

  YOU MUST

  teach me all there is to know

  of

  pinstripe boxjacket tuxedo woman’s pillhat

  velvet waistcoats,

  &

  Cup Court Shoes.

  ———————————————————

  CHERRY BERET.

  RASPBERRY SHOES.

  MADDER SLITFUN.

  Tufted Indigo, you’d better

  keep her body

  warm.

  ———

  BE CALM.

  NOW SWARM.

  1980 COLOUR GRID: CINNABAR JURY STITCH: UP

  1981 COLOUR GRID: CINNABAR PERFUME WORN BY SUE

  woman car. female lorry of all delights. Her mudguard thighs.

  bonnet indicators blinking. fine

  suede trousers grey gabardine (cloudy) thick-lined

  AVEC BILBERRY SATIN: green wool

  stockings (If you are

  deceptive fragility – YOU ARE!), brass eardrops, red

  suede cuffed

  winter boots. Add silver, lampblack leather

  court shoes

  ((mix duck egg & moss)) – Rain trench

  Rainjacket. warm

  lined lichen green

  zipped &

  buckled. GOLD dropping

  chunky, clip-ons. Easy satchel. YOUR NATURAL

  SLENDER WAIST.

  ——————————————————————————

  This Harpie Queen’s makeup flow. Her eyes dream. Her dry gin mouth lies.

  Gamboge pink you’ve rubbed against in a long time.

  Ribbed

  (wool, acrylic flamingo two piece on xerox

  Sue

  shredding letters from a shredded

  heart), torn,

  let’s go public, flattered in bedrooms & on

  floors.

  Red

  piped detachable pockets, blood stroked nearly, more

  DASH

  than CASH inside yr wardrobe of jalouse

  cullote

  evenings, tweed

  legs.

  ———

  Crocodiling pleated fleshfolds. Filament bulbness. Stark

  schoolchild stockingtops

  I’ve never slipped clean. STARLIT BRAS

  & shimmy lichen

  gumboots (buckles

  & studs).

  QUILTED BRAND-NEW RAINCOAT’S VELVET BELT UNDONE.

  Kiss her 1980 strongly-stitched pale shirt.

  Love the Dirt.

  She wore a kingfisher suede cape

  & the added machismo of a man’s big silver stretch strap Rolex

  Which

  tells

  the

  Time

  On her Ankles of Fire.

  JURY VET MEETS CANDACE BAHOUTH

  OBSIDIAN HEARTACHE drapes her in a scarlet Blouse.

  Punkititi Amadeus moanings

  tipped with skin.

  Mad weather bluesuede pumps of Thea Cadabra, metal

  pink beads shimmertexing

  Inca sprints,

  patent lips Undone.

  ———————————————————————————

  Deborah, peeptoed silverama bindings.

  Maxine, courted maribou trimettes.

  THREE BAR DIAMANTE STRAPPER

  TOED IN TIME.

  ————————

  YOU ARE SURELY A SLAUGHTERMAN’S CLOG IN A

  SECRET WORLD

  OF RED SUEDE FLAME

  tassel loafers

  &

  washable yellow Satin

  batshoes!

  Tossed applique mirrors glass.

  ——————————————

  SLINK, high-carbon soles.

  V-fronted

  Alicante piping she Strides.

  Fake leopard skin

  dream,

  ruched heels

  &

  interlocking sunray

  stitchings,

  YOU

  ONLY,

  KEPT MY MIND ON

  Damson

  Edges slipped

  &

  pouring Rain.

  ——————

  Mouldy toecaps bring

  me

  Home to

  footjam just

  The Same.

  —————

  STOP PRESS. JURY VET DISMISSAL SHOCK. TRIAL ABANDONED.

  ALL THE NICELY PLYWOOD GENESES & TENDER GREBES

  sink sullen brows in spit pools. Gob

  runs, pension becks & nauseating stream crest

  waves

  of life with you.

  Copy wreckage, glue driblets pocking baby’s face,

  women I chased on the lawns of Albion.

  ALL FAILED TO REPRESENT STARLIT BODIES LYING IN THE

  LIGHT FROM 16 WINDOWS.

  ——————————————

  Albion, your women wearing shoes.

  Straps & thongs, shoulder

  beads, pearl

  dust, viridian eyeshadow.

  I cursed her nasal whining uptight stinging snaps

  of ultra-real.

  ————————

  Strangers disease the hearte.

  ————————

  Now

  you’re behind each

  stupid hill

  we’ll

  recognise the awful night

  by

  STARS ALONE.

  MISTAKEN DELUGE NOW IN TIME

  I kissed my Errors as they came.

  Sucked sick real.

  Tears flowing on the bastard zero ground.

  Snap, cool down, wind-up furnace

  nights, chewed.

  ————————

  She undressed at dawn.

  She kept her shoes on.

  ——————————

  ‘I want your fuckdust children

  if you want me to,

  inside this carbon dress and

  leather stocking

  tops at Xmas when I left lovers

  &

  sank beneath each

  footblood

  sigh:

  to you I CAME & COME.’

  ————————————

  Pray to nothing and nothing comes.

  Pink specs attack the dawn

  delight.

  And You.

  If I cannot do it Now I’ll do it

  with Someone Else.

  —————————r />
  AND SOON.

  SPASTIC

  AXEING bitchette, slight me NOT

  when snowings bilious come.

  Tears pour dreadful vinegar on

  You.

  So far, casual, putrid concrete

  roadways, piling

  mossgloves. Tinted, bending

  forlorn gravelike

  excellence, humming

  lips & Tongues.

  —————————————————————————————————

  Simpleminded you have graced my Scissors

  & still come clean.

  ————————

  Neck chains.

  Blot

  love

  come

  now.

  ———

  Ankle fire. Foot & fingerflame.

  Swear a chain you forge in life.

  TO SEEK YOU NOW IS POISON SURE.

  Thus you Say:

  Fuck dots

  grab the scene

  & if you cannot

  Love me now,

  THE DISASTER IS PURE GREEN.

  PALMOLIVE RAINCOAT SWEETNESS: JURY VET IN RAIN

  THE BULB OF YOUR HEAD SHINES IN THE STREET!!

  Icey love woman, icicle, melting

  dagger, chest water soaking

  shirts. Blood

  is what your letters say.

  Fishy tongue brides

  crippled into sight

  of Thee: kiss each nasty limpridden

  edition

  of the Real.

  Power heads glancing, eyelocked, secret violins, Mozart

  swoops through rooms.

  ——————————

  WE ARE ALL PRIMADONNAS ESPECIALLY WHEN WE

  SAY WE AREN’T (SWIRLING)!!

  ———————————————

  Dawn telephone blistering, I

  come back to you, snailchasing

  slowness unsubscribed.

  No council coalbunker for us Now

  that we enjoy the palaces

  of ULTRA REAL.

  Hand in boot, & loving all the women

  which you are,

  NIGHT COOL.

  I HAVE BEEN INSIDE YOUR OFFICIAL SCHOOL

  TO REPEAT THIS LOW BEGGING.

  ——————————————————

  Dregs we suck

  to name the childe Gullfingers,

  dehiscent peaching

  fanny, pouring,

  crawling,

  &

  SPURIOUSLY UNREAL.

  FACING FAX: DOCILE ADJUSTMENT TO DAILY HORROR

  Happenings come fast. Fat flows thick. Spew spews.

  Wheat porridge glue.

  THIN dehiscent fuckdust streams

  their eyes

  when coming pollen Sun

  says Yes I Love You, But

  Don’t Be Bright.

  —————————

  Blessed suedefoam pollutes each hearty fugitive

  these cinnabar days.

  —————————

  Blackfeather plaguepeople on the bastard sill.

  Bitter

  sallow

  bricks of lime

  & suicide.

  Kill acid Brides.

  Comb her filthy hair.

  She was my Pride.

  HER DEMOCRATIC RATHOLE MOUTH DELIGHTS THE GUESTS

  & DRIVES

  THEIR SECRET MUSIK SPARE.

  STREETERS INTO RED

  BREVE ME BRYGHTE clean green pearl. Breve

  brine supercharging urchin spunkette

  dribblings into. All you

  drab caffeine mums-to-be.

  Shaved pork elbows, cumridden bras

  & laddered leather. YOU

  floordragged, roughened

  by violence, bangled

  tits & tots.

  VIXENATED HORNON LIPCRAWL,

  BLONDE & REALLY GINGERED UP.

  ———————————————

  Fingered Up

  crawl. Do much of nothing life. Basement

  nostril windows.

  ———————

  Bring my long-staffed pony, polluting filthy

  gangness. TOUCHED BY, in,

  bent over, creamery de la femme, overcooked

  by women & worse. FLICKER

  bints beyond recall.

  Pearlish lusting pawtracks

  across this people chest.

  TELL ME YOUR HIDDENNUMBERS.

  ———————————————

  Pauline, always kind to menthol strides on you.

  Kissed each cherry footglove, tongue

  available

  to

  tu.

  This ws Floor Event.

  FLETCHERED TH’ARROW IN YR TARTAN LIPS.

  Drank fierce wine

  from buttercoppes.

  ————————

  You pissed on my shoes and told me it’s raining.

  Such scripts du marriage

  do Fade.

  —————

  12 PAIRS OF SHOES

  HER DEPE COLOUR YET WONTED NONE AS

  STREETERS INTO RED. Mascara

  Suzzy’s cinematic face.

  ALL THESE HIGHLIGHT STRUTS SO GROUNDED

  NOW.

  Your wet red Paris hair,

  is a magazine of

  full

  & total hero’s liberation.

  Chanel. Estee Lauder. Clinique fumes.

  Hen Spice.

  —————

  Wolfing coverlust

  combines

  —————

  SAPPHIC, venereal, cocks

  combing gutters running

  fuckbloode: Titless &

  manyloved,

  ALWAYS you are ZOOSHING Up,

  tinselized & ready for a ghastly

  Bang

  of sans culottes

  in velvet west end beds

  &

  silken

  Rooms,

  YAPPING TORNCUNT STARLET BOUNCED

  IN TIME.

  ————————————

  Razorbill comes down

  on me.

  Mouth irruption brings you

  to the sedgey plucking

  Post

  to

  drink the

  daggered poison

  down.

  ———

  VIOLENT VALENTINE

  LOVEDOLE BEANOS FUCK SUCH PRUDERIE ANGLAISE.

  Jury vet speech cracked a wheel, Smoked

  Bahouth carmine Toenails, jumping

  wires cut yourfilthy sand.

  Mildew postcards from yr wildweed Hands.

  Burning meadows black.

  Cool divorce in rain.

  —————————

  Loveglow lustfoot shan’t, Not Yet.

  Gamey bedroom porn.

  Stitched ankles moan.

  RIDING RIDING ROCKSKULL LEAP FROM ME.

  Children not yet Made sing Bind my Secret Body

  &

  Suck to

  Death

  FALSE HALOES CAST ON THEE!

  PINK ENAMELLED TOSSPOT

  YOU WANT HER BROKEN WITH HER MOUTH

  WIDE OPEN

  BECAUSE SHE’S THIS YEAR’S GIRL.

  Frail apache, rue de la disco waif, let me part the Dralon

  curtains down across the vinyl cushions

  of yr Birth. Shattered rouge tete, drenched

  natural beauty bounties & Bunty annuals

  combined. JET leather strapettes

  skim her milkshake skin, blue lights

  jive.

  ——————————

  All your dirty looks, wife, all

  the well-read books. Now we KNOW how sick

  people move. Liberal crasstorn

  pussycat bleeding, I MISS YOU TOO!

  ————————
——

  TALCUM SHOES PLEASE, pollen Bras,

  pinstripe bootees

  & lorded cumsoaked fingerling. Dogshow

  MADNESS woofing pallid sex. O nunnery woman

  SO MONKISHLY TOUGH TOUCHING YOU

  in the thistle bristle wedding bed.

  (This game’s no sweat.)

  ——————————

  Purslane Pauline sticks a lip.

  ———————————

  Your single body’s a striking SOVIET!

  SOCIAL WORK TODAY: JURY VET SCANS THE RIOTS

  SHEW ME ANY TARNISHED PLACE WITH

 

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