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Hollow mouth slumped.
Conservatism ransacks;
Private ends fill teeth.
Coins disappoint in palm.
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Ill-Wishing
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Muffled tones.
"Pickpocket breadlines"
Was in no manifesto.
All pleasantries recede.
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Bumper Crop
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Friable zest.
Upper crust gullets
Never spew desserts.
Wits slice credulity.
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Kneeling
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Sacred below cloudscape.
Clerics soak up Pavlov
An abysmally observant text.
Denominated puppet masters.
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By
Christopher Barnes
In 1998 Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 2000 he read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology ‘Titles Are Bitches’. Christmas 2001 he debuted at Newcastle’s famous Morden Tower doing a reading of poems. Each year he read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and partook in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of his collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
