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Plasma (chant cont.)
Awake from harsh tunes fixed to troubled brains
Salvatore
My poor ears ache ball bearings rumble them
Paolo
The grinding gear noise was unbearable
Gianni
This screeching loud conveyor belt lets get off
Gloria
I settled into nightmare typical
Recurring weird improbabilities
Where pleasant people act so oddly rude
And bullies sugar endless flattery
My daydream nap then filled with big cat roars
Like those Id heard in zoos and which I guessed
To be the sabre tooths then mammoth toots
Blared largely elephantine that I sussed
Eduardo
Who would believe us? how could such things be?

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Paolo
Ive got a strong gut feeling rescue is
On its way coastguard helicopter search
Gianni
The vocal grandiose Miguel is to blame
For plunging us in crisis we should pass
Our shadows on his eyelids thus enact
A gallery of cameos hovering
Hed wake and die of sudden heart attack
Salvatore
A natural death coroners report
Plasma
I must save these folk from their wreckless youths
Its cool off time for overheated minds
Ill hum them humoured hint a healing hymn
(Chants)
Arise from dreams and nightmares deepest sleep
If your lives were prized they are wont to keep
For such as you in stealth are too quick slain

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Salvatore
Push shove well be each other alibid
Gianni
Si well survive catastrophe move forth
Ill emulate your sabotage in scale
Though humbler are the inner city bounds
You know my uncle mayor in nepotism
Indolent bureaucrats found internship
For me curating town hall documents
Ill blot erase and shred some toxic chits
Salvatore
If we escape from this giant pickle jar
We three should start a little business
With ethics tap a niche which is crying out
Poor folk with rotten teeth who cant afford
Rich dentists we should supply our clientele
With meth as a meth mouth means nought to them

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Salvatore (cont.)
A snore free siesta quality down time
A pumice stone induced deep coma si?
Gianni
Hey Paolo hand me that swiss army knife
All three of them can bleed out gradually
To pass away in deadly dull daydreams
Paolo
Gianni youre being too rash irrational
Keep your voice down please till a real plan gels
A senora slain is unthinkable
Salvatore
Reluctantly I must agree with you
The vagaries of providence can bring
Forth unprovoked misdeeds especially
Here we have Gloria and Eduardo plain
Theyre Miguels pals elite collateral
If negligent manslaughters sign the way
In them we have two patsies platter laid

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Paolo (cont.)
As long as his own salary is safe
The fiscal chest is siesta crimping stuff
May I join your rebellious club of pals?
Gianni
Si as youve sworn the governor a crook
Salvatore
Hes all for snoring not for snorting coke
Sleep walking long drops outhouse oriented
Entitled toff that he is steered by genes
Im all for stomping down three days three nights
Going sleepless native through rainforest thick
Chewing on guarana berries coca leaves
And stevia stalks in guerrilla war mode
Hes all for twiddling thumbs not fingers twitched
For pinched espresso cups the pinky out
Lets give this lily palmed state governor

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Salvatore (cont.)
Waves from his bullet proof plush limousine
Election day come whisks past ballot booths
With gentle toots his driver blows plebs off
And so leaves young turks such as I to do
The legwork canvas votes and brainwash well
Smirk party propaganda into being
Gianni
Were grass roots theyre dead wood true Salvatore
The narco sub wreck has now crystallised
My hate for mayor and uncle Eduardo
Salvatore
He licks my uncle Miguels boots for loot
I deputise you Gianni fight red tape
Paolo
Governor Miguel can turn his blind eye
On things of massive public interest

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Salvatore (cont.)
The fine white bum fluff number one goatee
The whining what you see is what you get
The pail of ancient axioms what of her?
Gianni
Mayor Eduardo too sad clown nodding si
Invisible except for his brown nose
Hed lighten our predicament found dead
A casualty of falling coconuts
Salvatore
She has the presidents ear which is deaf
Whereas I secretly emend state laws
To moderate the lot of peasantry
False bottom black organic heroin paid
When local body payroll cant be met
Shes boldfaced highlights where Im whitening
She fawns her pawn the governor Miguel
That stiff snob long removed from civvy street

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Eduardo (cont.)
Lets spend a siesta shaded there by rocks
Observing civilisation lures it
Gloria
A hard bed makes for backbone straight and true
Miguel
You lively young men forage us a lunch
Salvatore
Did you hear that old pompous motor mouth?
I could leap right in bare hands throttle him
Gianni
Id be surprised now if he didnt snore
The other clowns in chorus would approve
Salvatore
With him rolled out of way wed be reinforced
A death by misadventure on his card
His enemigos ever jostling him
The narco cartel bosses would think twice
But Gloria his stern scrapbook counsellor

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Gianni (cont.)
If cocked may be profoundly scrutinised
Tax credits claimed on subdivided land
May come to haunt her shell be less amused
Miguel
Compared to what tarts were available
To him then she looked angel heaven sent
The lucky billionaire industrialist
I think I know him from the consulate
Gloria
I wept on seeing the bridal gown and veil
Of cream and white and Dee was beautiful
The pages children dressed in suits and gowns
Left me quite breathless they were so darned cute
Eduardo
Dear Gloria I was told the girl who caught
The posy was a relative of yours
I must acquaint her with my boy some time

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Miguel (cont.)
The champion dancer northern hemisphere
The ten pin bowling bright new shooting star
I cant believe my son is still alive
But I take your word gospel otherwise
Id crash asleep and never wake again
Salvatore
My limbs are weary from our sea ordeal
Relaxed to point of withering away
Our Dee has been resilient Ive no doubt
Shes finished her reception mind intact
Tomorrow on her racecourse honeymoon
While ten detectives scour the kidnap scene
Shell calibrate her workaholic groom
So take the edge off our glaring gloom
Gianni
As shes societys yardstick now on notched
Beneath a magnifying glass she yet snooks

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Paolo (cont.)
While I trod water Silvio and Felix
Swam strongly different directions veered
Combatted undertow with furious strokes
As bookends scaled a steep soaked pebble beach
Myself I threw a sidestroke then a backstroke
A dogpaddle at it whatever would
Manoeuvre me beyond stroppy elements
I gulped air my heart beat in my feint head
Miguel
This is the special price of vanity
I saw her list of fine invited guests
I was intrigued and flattered totally
Elite peers draughted worthy company
The shipping magnates who came up from scratch
The multiple award burdened physicists
The beautiful society hostesses
And their impeccably fresh debutantes
The exiled military dictators

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Salvatore
What were you thinking when you savaged us?
Miguel
I good as tacked a bullseye on his back
Though he refused to wear a tuxedo
Ive much as murdered my poor darling son
By squeezing that showy wedding into blanks
Of our official black appointment book
Paolo
No Miguel your boys pretty much alive
I saw him scramble over sharp edged crags
Of coral on a lucky sudden swell
Miguel
But I tell you the fourth time I thrust up
Above waves my soaked head I saw my son
And Silvio fighting foaming thick wave crests
Paolo
From my perspective I assure you folk

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Miguel (cont.)
My one and only Felix my sweet boy
We shouldve passed on Dees big wedding day
Deemed its locale a too exotic fare
Salvatore
Senor Miguel so now what do you think
Of our brine powdered dry white skin tight suits?
Miguel
I think theyre wonderfully up to date
I couldnt see it as a fashion trend
You look as if you were poured into them
Forgive me please for being a fussy ponce
For that hypocrisy dealt on my part
Me wearing this gold earring all the while
A fancied merchant navy chest tattoo
Yet mocking you young fellows kitted out
With nose studs eyebrow pins and nipple rings

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Paolo (cont.)
From gaping clams or mussels shell sharp edge
Miguel
Si rips and scratches are the perfect crime
They were prepared to ask for piles of cash
As ransom not kill us on coke high whim
That much I give to those ambitious thugs
Don Silvio and his capo Giacomo
Eduardo
I can assure you theyve been more than once
Around the block in tinted windows framed
Salvatore
The captain capo used a sliding scale
Of ransom fees to arbitrate whos who
He got our hostage valuations bang on
In my opinion he wont just leave off
Miguel
Has anyone seen my son? has he drowned?

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Paolo
I nod and tick you whats in it for me?
Salvatore
A raft of newly minted medals could
Be pinned on your chest reward for services
A time in future marked of benefit
Paolo
Then I shall guard these isles against my foe
A civilisation lost far advanced
Its remnant aliens may inhabit caves
And wells and hollows under our bare feet
What guy fawkes like pranks lie in stall for us?
Gianni
Lead us as rearguard shunt us narrow filed
A moving target versus vicious foe
Miguel
Praise heavens there are more of us alive
Paolo
You look as if youve had a rushed close shave

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Gianni
But for phlegmatic coughs inflecting laughs
Which sign him sea sick now Id slap his head
Salvatore
I took in water near drowned but the sun
Is steaming my lungs dry take heart from me
Paolo
I feel so tired as if my body has
Burnt off some muscle that I might survive
Gianni
We must remain alert and slink along
I sense a savage magic circles us
This neck of coral reef the zombies wade
Theyre stiff as small dolls gift shop souvenired
Im sure premonition seeks out my eyes
Salvatore
Ive had a vision featuring you propped
The puppet statesman mouthpiece whom I use

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Salvatore
Punch drunk I look to land a lucky punch
On whoevers handy its a charming flaw
As goddess Venus plumped is my wet nurse
The dowry good as alimony banked
We chimps now follow up the money trail
Nod any vocal old degenerate
Theft sodomy and murder are in style
Paolo
As Im the only one who knows first aid
The bonobono good samaritan
I urge you alpha chimps to moderate
Your attitudes and think of who cleans up
You ape your peers loud alpha macho men
Who lose their wallets drunk crib taxis home
And so forth it starts looking less than fun
Salvatore
But no one makes you tag along Paolo

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Paolo (cont.)
Hemp woven your teeth pirate eyepatch blacked
Gianni
Do tell me is the coral snippet here
Beneath an equal opportunity?
Salvatore
Why mortgages now double right across
The board to make chicks who work feel at home
Each pumice block and lava lump the gem
Did their mums ever live down right of way?
Gianni
You make me laugh philosophical chimp
Not as much as when booze is on the house
At crystal punchbowls posed you pack a punch
You pick a fight with any fruity gent
To catch the eye of dishy debutantes

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Salvatore
Theres hardly anyone here few enough
To form a quorum bossed democracy
An all inclusive gang made crystalline
Thus any crony nominated odd
Might humbly deputise at any time
As prison warden copper or marine
Press into serving well community
Dealt handcuffs batons guns and pepper spray
What paradise where people live for love
Where marriage common law decides the bride
Defers to short straws drawn and dice cubes rolled
Gianni
It should be hydroponically fed
And decked with poppy hemp and coca plants
A dreamy picture postcard paradise
Paolo
Your medicine chest opium laced your smalls

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Gianni
So here we are sunk luckily alive
Well sweat by day and freeze in sweat by night
Salvatore
The coral island were now standing on
Is ripped like sculpted abs or pecs or glutes
Its lean and hard like any muscleman
Gianni
If less is more Id rather hump the reef
Quench lady body builder her tight clam
I think her shaped lagoon millstone lifebouy
For petrified young castaways a mount
Paolo
Id gladly take back home the island salt
On my breast pocket starch thick honours badge
Of braille outline of cigarette steel case
To fob my papas ball and chain a stitch
A yoyo yarn which yanks a fall and rise

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Gianni
Since her kings ransom wedding do were we
Not kidnapped just a bit too easily?
Is not our Dee conspicuously not here?
Salvatore
Why didnt she do well for her cute self
In marrying sideways skewed a billionaire
Industrialist her mother background checked?
Paolo
There we were guests at her huge opulent
Reception itemising tuxedos
And evening gowns and tippling bubbly wine
Our formalised concession being cravats
When boom we were coshed herded roughly gagged
By gangsters their heads balaclava clad
Rest catering firm uniform disguised

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Salvatore
Soon well be sundried flaky tomatoes
In our own sweat cooked no preservatives
Gianni
Its blindingly clear weve got nought to do
Else but directly stare at blazing sun
Paolo
Our clothes embrace our bodies theyre sewn on
Gianni
Tight as a homosexuals just as wet
The cheeks invite the eyes like it or not
Paolo
I know the faghag heiress socialite
Dee very well from summer holidays
Intentional hurt is not her cruel vice
Shes joyous and generous and slightly naive
Salvatore
Since when was Dee a dildo visited?

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Paolo
You cant hear your watch tick for crashing waves
Salvatore
Poor Paolo had his whole grand life mapped out
The diary down to seconds organised
Paolo
Two kitchen garden seagrass fathoms call
I could eat this salt peppered paradise
Salvatore
Look theres a horrid shadow passing through
A hammerhead shark prowling I would think
The knuckleheads sharp teeth and gristle else
No clouds in yon sky which is blue as blue
Joined seamlessly horizon free to sea
Paolo
Were promised rapid squat tsunami waves
As karmic payback due to shallowest lives

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Paolo (cont.)
Catastrophes occur from time to time
Folk get through bad stuff end the stronger souls
Our submarine wreck unexceptional
Insurance sales staff paramedics writhe
Mortality in annual quota met
Where coastguard helicopters buzz intent
So count your blessings that youre still alive
Gianni
The little pep talks plainly overcooked
Salvatore
Crisp barbecue kebab hot air slow spin
Gianni
Hes chirpier than a wooden cuckoos clock
Salvatore
Theres spring in his hop time for his last tweet
Gianni
Hes clocked in but to swab the landscape blot
Salvatore
He stuck his neck out ever sticky beak

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Angela chants (cont.)
It hurt me horrid you would surely think
Brain haemorrhage poor man some kind of clot
Of blood in his wise head a blown nerve link
I shied away from him and then got shot
Of his ingenious presence charming wink
In my wrecked ship the hammock loop and knot
I pluck a fan and sponges green and pink
The silversides and sardines swerve and roll
And a school of silver tarpon hurtles
And at them near flap forth two green turtles
On quarterdeck four crimson lobsters stroll
Moray eels love mad whove struck a jiggle
Green heart groove in grit it gets a giggle
Act 2 Scene 1
Paolo
Hey Gianni wise up now and quit your sighing

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Plasma (cont.)
Lit up by dodgy deep sea angler fish
Bioluminescent compadres near swish
As deeds of darkness dont address one day
The hidden heart cant ever drive away
Hector
And yet I yearn for my home town at times
Plasma chants
On iron sand plonk your bare foot soles
Imprint no heel and ball deep holes
Waves flatten foam out lose their strength
Walk your unleashed greyhounds at length
The fighting bantam crows cheep cheep
And rainchecks fresh chicks from his coop
The fighting pit bull yelps woof woof
And rainchecks fresh pups from his troupe
Angela chants
The wizard called me stupid blinkered bot

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Felix (cont.)
Kidnappers stuck in foolish argument
But wait a minute I know your face now
Wizard youre that distinguished scientist who
Went missing eight years past the daily rags
Got lots of mileage from your vanishing
Hector
In spirit I died earlier when my wife
Was diagnosed too late I felt helplessness
Now Angela was built in likeness true
And her kind will be plugged to equalise
Wherever women are outnumbered lots
And misery attends sterility
Angela
Its what she wouldve wanted she knew best
Plasma chants
One knot down stands your capo statue stiff
By lead belt weighted down as if no tiff

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Hector (cont.)
For this wrecked submarine disheveled man
And simultaneously he strongly feels
A desperate void filled and not true love
Angela
Then it is love at first sight is it not?
Felix
If you say its enthralling I desire
More oxytocin less adrenalin
Hector
Kick me the weapon grab humanity
Place your head with ours up the giant head sac
And we shall go for one pleasant flight
In this innocuous jetpack jellyfish
Calamity casts me the chaperone
Felix
It skipped to me on swing of narco sub

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Plasma (cont.)
Inelegant and blubber proud
Felix
The last dirge was entirely bittersweet
My godfather was accident prone just
Until mysteriously he passed away
To me he wasnt anything but old
Hector
Intruder freeze drop down on sand your gun
Do not encourage me to wave the wands
Angela
Dear he looks smaller skinnier met up close
Than scaled to life projections have allowed
Are you sure handsome he embodies threats?
Hector
Forbidden is that lane of ignorance
You are a prototype  of bio robot
The benchmark mould for many many more
I must dissect your basic motive dear
You feel enormous pity not true love

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Hector (cont.)
I thank you Albin from huge depths of heart
And also providence whatever powers
Perhaps Atlantean guide my sacred scrolls
Act 1 Scene 4
Felix
I wonder where might that ethereal tune
Originate? If I veer left to right
Or right to left the pitch drops down to nought
My ear drums pop so painfully to goad
Me back on course two steps on one step back
Plasma chants
As mist glowing on the sparkling brine
The nanobots spy cutting fine
As parasol they circle one
So guard the wizard from the sun
Glass flasks are frosted by wave foam
Glass shards are blunted by wet loam
The elephant seal barks out loud

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Albin (cont.)
Said twice and so want nought imagined else
I found you washed ashore one sunny day
As I combed beach the steeper reach of  strand
And circled anxiously till my calves ached
Tired I sat down on your chest to make a plan
At which a jellyfish popped from your mouth
And groans foamed out around your lips and teeth
I bound in shards of coral naked bones
With tattered old hemp fishing net pulled tight
Hector
That makeshift chalk shin cast for castaway
Dissolved and wed with my bare flesh and bone
As coral creatures phytoplankton loosed
Inside my tissues green luminescence

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Hector (cont.)
She was mere arms and torso victim still
Your evil deed seen by spy nanobots
Albin
So which of these great beauties is she now?
Is she the bob the pigtails or the curls?
Hector
All beauties look alike and theyre alike
If you love symmetries as you love chaos
Her mystery is not available
Remember my old vow that Id restore
Your gentle diminished fraternal twin
Contingent on a good behaviour bond?
Albin
As you are some mosaic twin genes professed
That morsel is not true hypocrisy
Small thanks for saving your wretched life then
Meantime Ive grown accustomed love my lot

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Albin (cont.)
Raised ocean levels inch high round the reefs
I want to renegotiate treaty terms
An inch above the low tide marks which ring
The coral island move with modern times
Hector
Well talk when you complete the punishment
Till youve clocked seven thousand hours hard slog
Community based service treadmill trapped
Your sentence served my ears are deaf to pleas
Albin
I was not caught in flagrante delicto
Hector
The felony of vandalism was judged
Concurrent evidence of circumstance
You smashed glass chamber number three to bits
Yourself thrust on the young unfinished clone
Both wholly drenched in green amniotic fluids

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Hector (cont.)
How far with opportunity weve come
Albin
Sweet Angela my small organic patch
Has only been blessed by your presence once
Angela
Your easy going free range sea gull coop stinks
My eyes cant bear the sight of chick wings clipped
This time no thanks to your foul boiled chewing gum
My inner being mysteriously recoils
Albin
Youre such a fuss with foodstuffs Angela
Angela
In truth I only eat to be polite
Well I must leave you now for beauty sleep
Recharge of batteries depleted here
Albin
Wizard Hector as global warming has

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Hector
Hes taking punishment all you need know
We need such vulgar puffed up entities
To test the bounds of our humanity
Define like framework neatly who we are
Albin
The gymnasium is tortuous punishment
When digging holes then filling them again
Is real mens work my carbon footprint small
Hector
Our last collaboration garden cove
Of hardy plants still thrives I trust Albin
Albin
Green is the only colour natural
To wild tomatoes carrots beans and peas
Hector
Tornadoes mainland sowed the stratosphere
Dropped our wild beachcombing eight treasured seeds

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Plasma (cont.)
Round me if I woke countless moons ago
The world and moon were caught in civil war
Hector
I guessed you some spark off the old starman
Plasma
Stir crazy over aeons trapped I cant whinge
But wizard I do many chores as thanks
For your hard reality and waking dream
Hector
Go reconnoitre castaways again
How is our feral pal doing treading mill?
Angela
I dont like him much he gives idiot looks
Hector
You never liked his bulbous ugly looks
And now we see hes much more ugly due
To bodybuilding protein shakes and sweat
Angela
Theres something youre not telling me wizard

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Plasma (cont.)
Alls ship shape sorted fresh come next high tide
Hector
Plasma youve grown indispensable here
And yet a day comes soon that we shall part
I feel it bode in my bones truthfully
Remember how I heard your moans and groans
From within that soft tufa slab and chipped
You loose and took care not to damage you
As if a sculptor safety margin inch
Plasma
I was from long incarceration freed
By you and this inch thick glass suits me flexed
The perfect weave of luck and legacy
Volcanic lava flowed abruptly hot

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Hector (cont.)
My hearty will squirm out of sailors knots
Three days adrift inside the treacherous
Sargasso seas of  Bermuda triangle
Enough hard tack and rum to last three days
Angela
Its such a shame your cousins covetous
A proud megalomaniac envy rid
I better understand your strong mood swings
Scene 3
Plasma
The narco sub has beached a sorry wreck
Survivors now swim diversely ashore
I brought a straggler bubbling up the hatch
Of its small conning tower through waves to air
I healed the superstructure watertight
And fixed electro mechanical faults

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Hector (cont.)
Adulterated to harmless dust
Or frozen isolated it might be
Ground off by teams of metal nanobots
But sadly money was his vital vice
He relegated labs to cut his costs
Short term and so soon fell behind his peers
In breakthroughs curative he damned us cranks
And touted cheap generic pills for all
Reluctant I agreed to meet with him
On downtown docks that we serve greater good
The ambush hit beneath container cranes
Without so much as sight of him and gagged
And bound and gunny sacking bagged I was
Shipped out to Carribean wild sea cast on
A decommissioned rudderless tug boat
Id heard my cousin cackle loud aye aye

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Scene 2
Hector
Its nought my doing know this bio robot dear
Angela our mortal foe are aboard
The narco sub yet I have not destroyed
Them using my considerable powers
Gaze once more on our magic crystal bouy
Angela
They battle valiantly in your swim zone
And so youre proven negligent thus far
Hector
Whats self inflicted is their business
And not ours Id be no samaritan
In Urep we were friendly rivals once
And we believed the many problems faced
By the world quite surmountable sad things
And we supported one anothers work
A cancer might be dealt to many ways

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Angela chants
Those hoods at sea in underworld they hark
To when their fish cold boss would feed on fear
Of late hes lost his dire predictive spark
Hes older dodders deep to death hes dear
Though metres long old tetchy tiger shark
Is sucked down by remora who cant bear
Their mentor more reduced an easier mark
And Neptune blunt them scuba divers spear
White ventrals grey blue dorsals too themselves
Now cobia pals of tiger shark deflate
With head butts their redundant hunting mate
A pilot fish now plugs gills closure delves
Sinking blindside by side yet well suited
Hes rock bottom bound the mood is muted

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Silvio (cont.)
Then he and I will exit ramming her
Entirely from the conning tower awash
With his small trunk of balsa wood
Assuredly bouyant nine tenths stale hot air
Youll scramble up the steel rungs one by one
That is last one out is a rotten egg
Giacomo
You were coerced into taking hostages
By former paramilitary troops
Collateral for ransom swamped for bucks
You are a naive sad patsy don Silvio
Silvio
On deep reflection I do think as much
Till we meet once more adios amigos

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Silvio (cont.)
Not one soul would miss any one of us
Giacomo
Ive swung the periscope full circle thrice
And factored out what look to be oil smears
A picture postcard is all I can see
Were at sea level stranded on some sort
Of coral island wrapped round its lagoon
Paolo
The splintered crates and fractured flasks slide on
Now washing from the hold our way in pools
We must abandon quick the narco sub
Silvio
Move pronto gracias down the nose cone end
First Giacomo undoes the batoned hatch
And lets the lady Gloria squeeze on past

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Silvio (cont.)
The current crisis is hot stinking air
Giacomo
Dear governor you owe us some respect
Full amnesties should we escape alive
We couldve simply executed you
At safe arms length with switch blades else hemp noose
Miguel
Did you not see me nodding powerful words
From Gloria our state counsel? special pleas
By high placed bureaucrats to presidents
Would be unconstitutional at best
Eduardo
As mayor I wholly back the governor
My eyes and ears arent bought so easily
Silvio
Then your ear dirt cheap is a cauliflower
Though kick back spared puffed by steel blue knock back

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Giacomo
A juvenile delinquent? thats not me
The government made me senorita
I still collect remand tithes here and there
As liaison officer no tithe no trial
Silvio
This is your final pistol whip enjoy
Giacomo
What it boils down to is youre ballast weight
Silvio
Climb up the conning tower and check the hatch
Senora know that ladies flush out first
Paolo
What Id give for any small high rise flat
Downtown with timeshare parking thrown in free
Miguel
The coral reef will be so slippery
Silvio
Youre thinking far too far ahead know all

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Scene 1

Silvio
Reverse propellers were now scratching cross
A coral reef reverse grease monkey hard
Wait till I get my hands on the crook who
Sold me this narco sub seagoing what crap
Dive depth five metres such piss Ive got all
His alias names on this crinkled scrap
The laws of short term karma slam on him
Giacomo
That horrible shrill creaking noise pains me
Have we confused magnetic north again
With true north? weve leant on luck far too much
Computing latitude by longitude
By altitude with compass square and pen
Theyre no match versus under ocean quake

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Silvio
Si Ive rubbed padded shoulders with the best
Bribe takers one could plant on payroll list
Though high society will not be name dropped
You yourself are that noble geriatric
A selfish spinster Ive admired in chaos
For counselling at least one civil war
And brokering fat fees yours all the same
Gloria
Backhanded is the compliment but facts
Are facts you wont escape the law so quick
Youre still young relatively Giacomo
Rehabilitation awaits your soul
The penitentiary would do you good
But Silvio can expect the supermax

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Silvio
Amigo old or no he will be crushed
The fingerprints removed by surgery
In operating theatres situated
Right side of town arent slippery enough
Pals will avenge this misadventure fast
Giacomo
Silvio I must untie the gags and cords
Which bind our hostages to ransom notes
Silvio
Release the human ballast Giacomo
Giacomo
Theyre nodding furiously to proof of life
I think theyll get the drift of undertow
Silvio
The self absorbed senora Gloria first
Gloria
Do you know who this is youre dealing with?

The Atoll

Silvio
Surrender rudder wheel man periscope
Dumbkopf gringo wouldnt be read first time
A narco sub went missing all souls lost
In the Bermuda triangle just because
A map was held the wrong way round and wet
Giacomo
The shonky diesel motors spluttering
It smacks of Pedros cheapskate handiwork
Silvio
I know his signature we fenced bank safes
And salsa bar strongboxes when rash youths
Si even then he cribbed a metal gauge
By vernier pocketing a gram or two
Dino
Bog is showing through fresh painted fibreglass

The Atoll

Scene 1

Silvio
Reverse propellors were now scratching cross
A coral reef reverse grease monkey hard
Wait till I get my hands on the crook who
Sold me this narco sub seagoing what crap
Dive depth five metres such piss Ive got all
His alias names on this crinkled scrap
The laws of short term karma slam on him
Giacomo
That horrible shrill creaking noise pains me
Have we confused magnetic north again
With true north? weve leant on luck far too much
Computing latitude by longitude
By altitude with compass square and pen
Theyre no match versus under ocean quake

The Atoll

Prologue chant

Angela
Perhaps I ought to strike out on my own
As my poor wizard surely knows it all
Or somehow feels obliged to lilt high flown
In talking large he squashes me down small
Although hes mostly lost in thoughts unknown
The zero population growth dire pall
Allows him luxury of his self clone
Myself infertile I could boldly bawl
In eerie peace beneath surf waves that pound
Lie treasure troves all types of wrecks
This astrolabe that traverse board I found
Embossed with detritus in punctured decks
The wizard minds a museum hails the hoard
Of artefacts that tax payers cant afford

characters

The Atoll

by KQJ

Characters
Miguel - governor of a state
Felix - son of the governor
Hector - disappeared wizard
Salvatore - young man about town
Gianni - young man about town
Dino - scab narco sub engineer
Silvio - boss of a coke cartel
Giacomo - captain in a coke cartel
Paolo - socialite heir
Eduardo - mayor of a borough
Gloria - centeganarian counsel to mayor
Angela - prototype bio-robot
Plasma - a scrap of starman
Europa and friends - mermaid and merman robots from
the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter
Albin - vitiligo afflicted diminished twins

An interactive movie comedy in 220 emails set in the Bermuda triangle

sonnet xxxxvi

sonnet xxxxvi from 10.07.

I had a crystal clear take on wet things
Unmoved by theories that part stuff from soul
If out of sorts you squirmed the gold fish bowl
With flirty histrionics and freak mood swings
I knew a womans heart loved rocks on rings
That tampons monthly took their troubling toll
That bloody birth stood any girls prime goal
I knew our future beyond the flaunted flings
I peeped my Pip saw part of what they meant
She looked aloof then laughed a lot with boys
Her barely it was envy filled I bent
A yearning ear to lusty loud white noise
I heeded my own voluble advice
I found new lovers cool as cocktail ice

Chorus
o advice
o counsel
o instruction

by KQJ

sonnet xxxxvi from 10.07

sonnet xxxxvi from 10.07.

I had a crystal clear take on wet things
Unmoved by theories that part stuff from soul
If out of sorts you squirmed the gold fish bowl
With flirty histrionics and freak mood swings
I knew a womans heart loved rocks on rings
That tampons monthly took their troubling toll
That bloody birth stood any girls prime goal
I knew our future beyond the flaunted flings
I peeped my Pip saw part of what they meant
She looked aloof then laughed a lot with boys
It was her barely envy filled I bent
A yearning ear to lusty white noise
I heeded my own voluble advice
I found new lovers cool as cocktail ice

Chorus
o advice
o counsel
o instruction

by KQJ

Mega

header

phone numbers

casino tower and satellite

sonnet 18.10.07

sonnet 18.10.07.
My foetus on cat scan through stethoscope
Was smiling happy bobbing from her cord
My bitch breasts full protruded hard as board
Ached solemnly with birth Id somehow cope
I was numb stung by epidural dope
My slit was shorn bald and hygiene underscored
White rubber gloves engagingly explored
The midwife gave my navel one last grope
To lighten things I let my husband browse
Hed immersed himself the last trimester
Presence welcome anxious did he pester
Caesarean in play I began to rouse
The baby plus her afterbirth lump sum
I worried whether Id smile laugh or come

Chorus

o sum
o lot
o total

fatalism

The script kept shrinking till it looked like it was going to be a one act play then it started growing again to full play length after which it looked like a decent demo that might be a couple of drafts off a work of art.
KQJ

sonnet 28.6.13.
You need the nous to save your pretty face
You might just trade up tiers and take a god
Just give me better looking boy the nod
Adonis like Ill pose beau him replace
I can read your mind youre a classic case
As you cant quite quit older tracks youve trod
My suave and witty ways for you arent odd
What you regret is envying his warm grace
As you broke off from him its your mishap
Theres no way you can get with him again
And you cant summon him by finger snap
It bodes if you cling more youll languish bane
Drop nostalgia your by halves behaviour
If your true self then Im your savvy saviour

Chorus

o behaviour
o gesture
o mannerism

The script has been uploaded as 220 emails and each sits beautifully on a mobile phone screen the shape and size of a playing card.  The next phase is funding.  :) :0 :) Whos betting against us?

The script is a benchmark for the rest.  Its a case of fourth time lucky.
A new class of submarine, a type of mini sub appeared in the meantime,
something that could fit and be sectioned on a theatre stage.

sonnet #1,667

You must've loved someone who was plain bad
News once, and cried, and gone and grabbed some more,
The pain appeals, as when he can adore
You mostly - slightly meanly make you sad.
You've watched a hundred sunsets, fun times had
The ninety nine times - yet one he calls a bore,
It's stuck so scathingly, to make you sore-
He's tender otherwise, a scumbag tad.
You'll draw him up and dote, you'll praise him well-
He'll slap you down to brink of welt or bruise-
He's no fresh dust speck dredged from oyster shell-
His love is right and raw and rare, no ruse.
The grain he gives you next is good as gold,
Shapes worth as much as massive else on hold.

(Chorus)

o gold
o platinum
o silver

sonnet #1,666

My love self frozen whole, it plain appears,
And packed in memories for monument,
Through earth's small black hole bagged in water went,
Expanding wedge like, forcing one side fears.
Glass fibres have been fused yard thick on gears
And racks, tectonic plates are thereby rent,
And lava moulded loops from ocean vent
Are stretched in place to dampen seismic shears.
The world has since emerged remade a ball,
Inside out land crust panels, fogs and seas
Of water spout from its cool, concentric squall,
Its black hole, where swell, fabled timelords freeze.
Iced down to that black hole as hard gene dust,
Amnesiac, I've addressed my darling's trust.

(Chorus)

o dust
o grit
o powder

sonnet #1,665

At times I thresh out life defining themes,
I note in nicotine and change in weight
There's little worth, they're terminally late
Among cross outs and blots in reams and reams.
I'll envy equals, loiter long daydreams
Begrudging one bloke's gorgeous nose or pate,
Another's social skills, which animate,
Another's style, airs, grace and money streams.
Till I touched upon your face the future
The feature perfect, near bland, unique yet,
Seamless if in areas styled by suture,
My eyesight was nought but a blinkered bet.
My heart rests with you my pretty pretty
Throughout zooming zones of nittygritty.

(Chorus)

o pretty
o handsome
o gorgeous

sonnet #1,664

You're not elusive when in lucid dreams
I make you come and go as you aim please,
Augmented reality will frame and freeze
Your means, impose back on you stuff which seems.
The yogis yanked me this way their sha themes,
I know you well enough, ignore your tease;
I validate ultraviolet light beams,
They strobe from your eyes, snuff me out disease.
I've shouldered early hours and double shifts,
I've nodded off when sent on coffee breaks,
You're superimposed there for both our sakes,
Your arms hug me, once more, and my heart lifts.
Now cradled peace, I crash out, pass away,
Accepting pastures wherein we shall play.

(Chorus)

o away
o distanced
o gone

sonnet #1,663

Gave him a hundred notes so he'd get lost,
Which came off well, he being the gigolo,
Embryonic, cornered, fathomed, good to go,
And she the babe seen precious yet small cost.
Her fair, young features froze as cold as frost,
I wasn't her type when attracting woe,
Her fingers withdrew from mine warm blood flow,
I spawned white knight that she could kneel engrossed.
Statue-like she stood and talked contrary,
She needed now on, her own nodding knave,
I spawned against odds small time slick wage slave,
Wondered if I'd ever please her wary.
Conjured enthroned, she thawed, she primped to please,
I lay my gargoyle head on her stiff knees.

(Chorus)

o please
o delight
o gratify

sonnet #1,662

The warm spring shower rain drips through helmet slits,
As we cheer down the old stink filled subway,
Below railway tracks, over motorway,
Pull up at heaps of broken bottle bits.
From mouldy walls to mesh fence long grass knits
Addressed by scrawled tags, cryptic ego spray,
There we lift our bikes over, cross okay,
I field her friendly girlish giggle fits.
Afar, drab pedestrians club as they will,
Rain glistens glow in her cheeks glamorous;
Bikes kicked stands, kisses quick, it's such a thrill,
Her sportsbra outline stiffens amorous.
We mount our steel and aluminium steeds,
Jink bollards; tread scored ramp to lower gears cedes.

(Chorus)

o steeds
o ponies
o horses

sonnet #1,661

He's got brawn, the brains are mine, yours beauty,
So we can pull off a cashed out caper,
Mammon take the tax, excise, and duty,
We'll kiss mountainously minted paper.
All you'll need do is talk fairly fruity,
Such home dwellers down to owners taper,
Easing them a mortgage moral duty,
Kids' well being, the social conscience scraper.
Rag the mad bull market, rort the rocket,
Grit your wisdom teeth, and gnash your molars,
Ponzi points in your waist coat fob pocket,
Short those syphilitic scab bipolars.
My brains terminate on timely pension,
Kids, you make the mess through rank dissension.

(Chorus)

o pension
o benefit
o annuity

sonnet #1,660

So you say you love me only dearly,
That she's a nervous, needy good old friend,
That her soft words to her own loyal man wend,
I believe you, dear, entirely nearly.
That first time I spied you courted clearly,
We fought, you put your foot in it by end,
Saying, long term, boy and girl platonic tend,
Saying, like minded mates as one live merely.
I get her nuisance nuance - she'd go out grab
Someone else's true love; she's man crazy,
She'd keep a wish list, I'd bet, tick a tab,
Handsome hunk on you, with her bloke hazy.
Embraced, embarrassed by her, all a bluff,
I blush imagining you two snug buff.

(Chorus)

o bluff
o manner
o pose

sonnet #1,659

Dress me down voodoo vixen, kick up a stink,
Keep small change on that old liquor loan,
Your sympathetic magic works a wink,
Or finger snap, then you your spells intone.
My crowd exclude us, lately they disown,
Yet I'm much happier than you'd ever think,
And frenemies affirm the legba link-
With laughs behind their hands, else they groan.
A zombie I might just be, who's to judge?
Stamped, my right foot by her boot was broken,
The achilles tendon snapped, as token
She signed the plaster cast with lipstick smudge.
My voodoo vixen's hickeys are like hives,
She deals me dead legs, too, my heart revives.

(Chorus)

o hives
o lumps
o welts

sonnet #1,658

Mosaics lined this medressa called Sher Dor,
In pixels slinked the legendary pride,
They looked more like wild tigers, closely eyed,
By tigons, ligers, time lords place much store.
Royal hand maid or kidnapped young Silk Road whore?
In caravanserai plied side by side?
Tired merchants mating, nightly open wide?
The fresco fragments secrets which I live for.
A flake of fresco filled my genie jar
With painter chromosomes, the odd stem cell,
Out welled my guide and fellow ne'er do well
And sped me forth to my love's neat bone scar.
My love and I and ibises, wade flats,
The yin and yang sinkhole twirl inks our hats.

(Chorus)

o flats
o deltas
o plains

sonnet #1,657

Should blowflies breeze past bad ass Beelzebub
I like to spritz them swift a scented whiff
Of daisy essence poison, not as if
I couldn't flourish without their odd flub.
The camel lumps in larders, nub and nub,
And swings a route with grit, he serves as skiff
Of desert dunes, a carbon foot print whiff,
He never poops or pees more than a tub.
I won't miss predator groomed parasites,
I could live without crowding fish and fowl,
Or tigers who are poached the while they prowl
Disease infiltrated by mindless mites.
Heavens, where I'd hail your sensual frisson,
There I'd feed on sunlight streamed by fission.

(Chorus)

o frisson
o buzz
o charge

sonnet #1,656

Too late to burble sorry, beg reprieve,
I should've said it straight off yesterday,
Perhaps it will just blow past come what may,
Perhaps she'll grant me grace soon, by your leave.
Yes, call it passing fumble, else a peeve
In progress, peg it dreamy dropped relay,
Against my future fine acts a-okay,
I'll wait in silence and let my heart grieve.
Tell, when do misdemeanours sum as sin?
And when do sins in their turn snowball crime?
Too late to estimate who'll lose, who'll win
Against a quirk of character this time.
I've learnt and lumbered so much on minor aches,
It may or may not go to big heatbreaks.

(Chorus)

o aches
o pains
o vexations

sonnet #1,655

Catch that upbeat chick starting her singsong,
Another whistles worries shoo away,
Another honies her call centre sway,
Another sighs you sainthood all along.
Catch that close friend babe nodding right or wrong,
Another bides your look, winks she'll obey,
Another primps hair through a pure sun ray,
Another hugs safe harbour, no dingdong.
Yet soon enough your nice looks shall fade,
As gravity asserts you sluggish sag,
You'll lose the sweet fairweather mates you've made,
You won't read such a brilliant boy to bag.
Such you'll regret at your and my steep cost-
I'll carry you sick, bruised or trouble tossed.

(Chorus)

o cost
o expense
o price

sonnet #1,654

White stephanaoitis sprays framed my white veil,
I clutched and seethed at my white satin muff;
I browsed the best man pulling his sharp cuff,
The organ rang a stave as if a scale.
He could on second thought embarrassed bail,
The midnight call from me deemed curious stuff;
Through gritted teeth he'd groaned he'd seen enough,
We'd meet at the altar, whole and hale.
I'd pressed my petticoat flush over hoops,
My white satin gown ribbed stiff that blunder;
Emotive mother, sis and I loopy loops,
Photographer catching stuff asunder.
One another till one day we perish,
Charmed, we vowed to honour love and cherish.

(Chorus)

o cherish
o sustain
o treasure

sonnet #1,653

We've hit a steep or snaky learning curve,
Elusive skills of compromise prove key;
If I go preempt adrenalin, and fight or flee,
Then he might just conjure a telling swerve.
On my own life he posted me to perv
Distorted tentatively trite and twee;
He'd joking squeezed me soft that others see,
My vacuous views he volumnised with verve.
Where our respectful per se purity?
Why do I mill around his morbid mood?
Why does he clamour insecurity?
Why does he calm me then go clanging crude?
I stare him down, him kick under any table,
When in life and love I'm more than able.

(Chorus)

o table
o bench
o desk

sonnet #1,652

My sweet this instance let through commonsense,
On innner life an outer life placed curb;
My love trussed introspection reference,
Distinguished herself from things which disturb.
Her errant thoughts in smirky smiles confluence,
Her brain awash a propaganda blurb,
RNA built, off DNA stuff dense,
And gerunds integrating noun and verb.
You pay lip service when you sense a bust,
And disallow things smoothed, which disappoint;
Incongruities and clockwork out of joint,
You're absent minded, present bodied thrust.
You see me unnerved, with your eyes twinkling,
Your skin tightens round their fine nose wrinkling.

(Chorus)

o twinkling
o coruscating
o shimmering

sonnet #1,651

In tranquil times I'll sip a cup of tea,
And call to mind the memories of chance,
And meditating, ancient acts enhance,
As breathing is a deed unforced and free.
As memories are muddled, no key
Unlocks their order, secret circumstance;
With underpinning passion tears advance
A gallery of rascals random apogee.
If fragile friends who couldn't ever win,
Are there too, thin skinned, they're inanimate;
Old bullies, frenemies and bad ass kin,
Among deceased forgotten glide and wait.
I don't recall my calling you at all,
If you were first to love, I was to fall?

(Chorus)

o all
o entire
o whole

sonnet #1,650

She traipsed a few steps walking on her palms,
Red ankles on her butt, her black gymn pants;
The passing partygoers were quiet with qualms,
As pigtails slid through new mown grass, mere glance.
I lingered lost in her too obvious charms,
And crushed a can, I took a cross armed stance;
Two chicks mugged then, murmured mock up in arms,
I seethed those skinny arms, that show off prance.
How was this girl I longed for, longed to meet,
Of whom I dreamed, on dares or acting cheap,
Cool intellectual beauty? Bar a peep -
How was I first deceived by some such sweet?
I drove you home long way round, at leisure,
Walked the fine line tipsy, took your measure.

(Chorus)

o leisure
o discretion
o recognisance

sonnet #1,649

Godog ex machina deigns me your serf,
In name and title just a triumphant knight,
To pleasant living you have peer born right,
My steed can only stroke at such firm turf.
I couldn't chasten you as you hold court,
I couldn't guide your quill with my gauntlet fist
Through your hornbook's most favoured folk short list,
Insert my name vowing bullying last resort.
We count ourselves untouched by dread black death,
We meander over mirroring still moat,
You under veil, I under crossed surcoat,
Up bailey stairs you billow filtered breath.
The garrison few can yet wage your whim,
My sombre servitude to you my hymn.

(Chorus)

o whim
o caprice
o gambit

sonnet #1,648

I thought I'd had enough of their oozed wiles,
And flagrant feminine ways, myriad moods,
The fundamental bickering and feuds,
How can I view attractive what reviles?
Sometimes I trade off from whatever riles,
Somehow my bright outlook downright deludes,
I join the primping, plumping gang of pseuds,
Defer prognosis, fossick superficial smiles.
Yes, there's always that one abiding bitch
Who courts my brain with her exclusive laugh,
Or timorous idiosyncratic twitch,
That cute chick who's too clever just one half.
It's bitter chocolate embellished sweet,
I'd back out bowing, now, as we broadly meet.

(Chorus)

o sweet
o mellow
o treacly

sonnet #1,647

I've conquered love, I don't yet covet might,
In moments spare it sinks down, weighs a ton,
It maddens me gone plumb, since pyrrhic won,
I don't ask round, you can bet she's all right.
Half-formed gut parasites long freed of sight,
And giant moths dollied down off-brown and dun,
And radiant plankton well nigh sprung of sun,
And backward panthers bordering the night.
Indigenous malnourished folk cum dwarves,
And homeless hobos who retire in squats,
And vacant ship girls who invade the wharves,
And tribes lost who swear by long bow long shots.
Old love grows less fierce, yet it never dies,
It swells that niche of neither lows or highs.

(Chorus)

o dies
o croaks
o expires

sonnet #1,646

That time then you and I were near unique,
I didn't see you my immortal muse,
From mild familiars shall I try recuse,
The other lover interlopes to pique.
Accessorised a cinch, you spring mystique,
He raises your dress code, a standard ruse,
Enthuses basic hairstyle, dress, and shoes,
He leans on you when you aspire to chic.
Beneath a microscope you're more diverse,
I view you water ice, inviting schism,
Then sunlit jelly standing gnomon prism,
Then anti-atoms, other universe.
He over scrutinises your skite,
Your foe couch fade, sheer ultraviolet light.

(Chorus)

o skite
o boast
o claim

sonnet #1,645

I whipped his arse the one quick beach towel flick,
And got him back for his rough chinese burn;
He shot my shins an under bench quick kick
For dropping ice cubes down his back, poor return.
We laughed and cringed upon each trick and tic
Far, far, too long, when he'd so much to learn,
We fiddled gender frisson, didn't click,
Let juvenile delinquencies adjourn.
The humble water cooler, water jug
And teapot hold as my informants' hub,
His foibles, sayings and schedules form the nub
Of girl chat I wedge him in, he the mug.
Which old chick is the dozy boy pursuing?
And what's the news and what's he up and doing?

(Chorus)

o pursuing
o chasing
o hunting

sonnet #1,644

Discrepancies in her true story since
Thrust me such mental anguish, cast a pall,
They work emotions, I try not to wince,
I feel old friends turn fiends, abet my fall.
The sure handshake and soft back taps convince-
I've been tricked by a pro with gallant gall,
As backstabbing looks forth, at hindsight hints,
I'd much prefer a freezing cold stonewall.
One is genteel, olde world nice mannered, warm,
One is exuberant, then raw, no blot,
One is adroit and dainty, on the dot,
One is inclusive, transcending the norm.
Friends with fanciful and fancied fellows,
I keep smirking, envy slowly mellows.

(Chorus)

o fellows
o blokes
o men

sonnet #1,643

Just wince me this behaviour, which is odd,
Or symptomatic, that girl boy thing,
My eyes relieve of tears, of senseless sting,
My heart awaits assurance, if slipshod.
A knowing quick look, or shrug or nod
Would liberate it, balm it, some peace bring,
To hormone hell, adrenalin I cling,
The menstruals worn off, weighted down, or cod.
My heart is clenched, a fist in its ribcage,
I hold my breath, turn blue, I yield to you,
My sacrifices culminate a slew,
I crave you, cavegirl, when assumed assuage.
On knees, as mustered, your experiment,
You've washed away my wiles, it's eminent.

(Chorus)

o experiment
o test
o verify

sonnet #1,642

I mumble under my breath while she slinks
Across the kerb, yes, what a charming chick,
The honey bob and jean shorts, mark no trick,
I'm her white knight, it's unbeknownst, methinks.
I pray to Christ this living saint or sphinx
Will enter my life, freely my heart pick,
I'd like to learn what makes her truly tick,
I'd love to meet her mind, her inner minx.
All heaven sent gifts, hygiene, spas and health,
As her fine skin and hair and clothes are clean,
My head is turned by her apparent wealth
And easy walk, the twinge of youth between.
Well, she looks right through me for miles on miles,
I make as much of her as quick half smiles.

(Chorus)

o miles
o feet
o yards

sonnet #1,641

Will he land her? will he now criss the match?
I've reeled him out, no rearguard rescue search,
And called the girlfriends, baited him fine catch,
I'm sure he'll be scuppered, they won't besmirch.
I know she only wants kids by the batch,
I know she only nods a ring in church,
I know she only sees a thick black thatch,
I know she only picks from status perch.
The war of sexes draws on battles done,
The game is clued up, munted battleships,
He's sunk on more than mapping luscious lips-
These girls are farthest friends, in sum as one.
He'll feel me out as squarely stuff I'm not,
Infer me one long slow burn fuse white hot.

(Chorus)

o not
o nicht
o nyeh

sonnet #1,640

The willing scapegoats who then bluff their power,
The pundits who first cloud their crystal balls,
The magnates who still manage whiskey sour,
The goofy gangsters who line gilded palls.
No difference then, if I cuss or cower,
Or conk out, one too many bar-room brawls,
The world's a floating turd or lily flower,
El nino greenhouse gas enforcing squalls.
Or, maybe myopia is the better game,
With zest for you, dear, I should zero in,
You are my heaven, a homespun heroine,
And maybe trivial trials aren't ever lame.
So, let's escape, to daily living yield,
We're useless, yearn in love, that's our best shield.

(Chorus)

o yield
o capitulate
o surrender

sonnet #1,639

The narrow concrete lane between homes wends
Past your old second storey chimney stacks,
In anti-cycling stiles begins and ends,
Hedge overgrown, it seeds dry grass in cracks.
I'm lost now without you, my life rends
No joie de vivre, feels shanty towns and shacks,
Too late to shake the clock or make amends,
A ghost of you this hapless heart now tracks.
The weekend party was the main event
For me and less you, which I can now see,
Exams and job prospects swerved you free,
To sweet you there was more than making rent.
Wild branches pushed away spring back in place
And trigger tears as they strike through my face.

(Chorus)

o place
o location
o site

sonnet #1,638

I sought to see the loser, waged a whim,
At leisure, so doing I could take good stock,
There was a soothing silliness round him,
I felt impelled to patronise or mock.
I sat at stage left primping, pretty prim,
They'd smirked him either muscleman or jock,
I'd sussed that pickup, pudgy arms not trim-
Was it wry anecdotes cussed or knock-knock?
As he told his jokes, with abandoned pride,
My eyes moistened knowing his future furtive;
He was young as I, and swell assertive,
I shrank, I couldn't heckle him or hide.
I found his candour corny, meant to sway,
He was just what I wanted, my dismay.

(Chorus)

o sway
o draw
o magnetise

sonnet #1,637

They're my hard candy cane, lick beyond a bite,
They're my sour licorice, sweet lemon gum,
They're my cake iced, cubes of turkish delight,
They're my cheese cream, its bed of biscuit crumb.
They're my pavlova tiered, each twirl a flight,
They're my scoop, icecream raisins flavoured rum,
They're my eggnog, sipped as last thing at night,
They're my fruit toffee'd, apple, peach or plumb.
Your lips are lush, that's whether glazed or glossed,
I can't engage enough when kissing them
In broad daylight, my inhibitions lost,
Just give me your hot tongue, or your sweet phlegm.
Kiss, honey, ladle on your treacle treat,
We're peered by people, alley, lane, else street.

(Chorus)

o treat
o gift
o present

sonnet #1,636

Motion sensor console gambling satires,
Three sad clowns, gray, grey shades, tatty attires.
Old stage two geezer goosed his walking frame
Up closer, nodding acquaintance his aim,
Vote buying prime ministers of endless past
Passed front of his eyes, slide show ghosts aghast.
Armchair sports fan put right a kick which stunk,
Viewed double slomo, and fast forward drunk-
His avatar backed scored a sweet own goal,
Converted jab of heel, no rigmarole.
A draughtsman far side of this world drew
Caricatures inspired, no one he knew,
A likeness near side of this world, luck
Did have it, at his twin a headbutt struck.

(Chorus)

o attires
o clothes
o garments

sonnet #1,635

She was vain, that is, you'd just think my type,
A narcissist for loving bonds as pellmell
As anyone in any mane or stripe
Where society's rank mutual fictions swell.
She'd nod my worries merely trifling tripe,
The while part yawn, on her own worries dwell-
Who could accuse her, spit her guttersnipe?
This was perspective plumped, not kiss and tell.
Perspective wasn't her strong suit, spelt rude,
And read post mortem - she removed grey hair,
Waxed her whiskers, at surgery would sneer,
Was hung up on bra sizes flexed by food.
I'm looking out for girls who yearning yawn
Their lives in vain on vain men, beg off brawn.

(Chorus)

o yawn
o dilate
o gape

sonnet #1,634

Seems hardly yesterday that young I fell
In love so easily by grand degrees,
My heart would race on, and my ribcage swell,
My eyes would idolise, my kneecaps freeze.
I've never ever waged since then so well,
I've ever never been so prepped to please,
As then I loved a tomcat tortoiseshell
Or babies bandied cross my bouncing knees.
Boy's gaze lingers, then my lashes flutter,
Boy's candid compliment, I'll thank and thank,
A first date kiss and my poor brain goes blank,
Understanding little which he'll utter.
Such is my valour, joie de vivre and vim
I wend from boy to boy, my love a whim.

(Chorus)

o vim
o ebullience
o gusto

sonnet #1,633

I was so wrong to reckon this love pure
And matchless, and earmark it good as done,
To flatter you, when options felt lots fewer-
How was I meant to gauge a thing begun?
For cursory eye glances rhymes aren't cure,
My dear, these sonnets stacked by gross, by ton,
Each laboured as if last, might long endure,
Each far off scrawls profligate, sweatless won.
Not so long ago, dear, I'd have given
My right arm up for this exquisite rut
This subordinate life diary driven,
The lithe outlines of your knees, arms and butt.
Sweeter lines inspired now, written later,
Greatest love I had for you now greater.

(Chorus)

o later
o after
o post

sonnet #1,632

I reached for words down clusters, under roots
Of etymology, down aeons past past,
On halo, heal, hole, helium my eyes cast,
On halo, hollow, its disc and ring offshoots.
I thought of sha-light starlight, cartoon smiles
On happy suns, exhaled grey cloudy breath,
At sunrise staring straight at life and death-
Did sun transmit rare water stretched for miles?
The night we hit on deuced bouncing hail,
White dice cubes seeming cut from twinkling stars,
I worshipped avidly our avatars,
And praised hard spoken ice flukes of comet tail.
World overcrowding, it's thin earth crust,
Sha's engineered balm, streams of stellar dust.

(Chorus)

o crust
o layer
o shell