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Three Poems by Richard Mason

ejaculation

cream      sinks
oh  my children
mingled as you 
are  with harpic




that magpie

bird  of  omen
how        many
sorrow joy etc
this that other

wakes me  up
every morning




novelty act


"Anyone who believes that Robert Johnson was 'natural'
and not putting it on is a bourgeois romantic
[Chris Cutler]


worn              oft
woke             up

clothes          on
head        down

sing           blue
talk           t'folk 

new         bottle
old           liquor

new           dog
old            trick

new       broom
old      peculiar

so             long
s  u  c  k  e  r  s


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Richard Mason's had poems appear via ditch & exp-exp-lit; he'll have some more appear in blue and yellow dog and a publication by erbacce press. He lives in Oxford in England.