Drag
a perfect god in high heels
slipping on the frosty street
our usual hands founder
lost at land
doubts made of jest
may be given over for a sacrifice
no surprise is new
on the tailor’s mother tongue
Cheerful poems
Cheerful poems — a collection of the best works on Poemship.
Still life
painting fruit
the howl of it
like a bet on joy
(W)hole
I go to fat
dine to lose me
and increase
the whole
Lowered expectations
I miss the ordnance in hope
turn as far as the peak
and so home to church
and a ham supper
Tablemates
invited to dinner by a fly
this time of day I sing
anything frivolous
to my gin
Simulacra
o my woolly eye
and woolly ear
if we were as wise as we are now
we might have become real
On the make
a while to wait
so I find love
see a fine woman and play
at being thoughtful
ready with a book
telling the beautifulest mouth
a pretty lie
Her majesty’s dog at Kew
with silver plates serving us sand
a gentleman tells me
the meaning of dog
walls secure the night
and call every fox
to take the air
Sunny
if I dine alone
if I go to the grave with my hat on
if god is a paper bed
I rise in the morning
Truisms
lock and own
to lack is a sin
a dull people are a content people
at all the papers
Surgical strike
a half-hour war
from our want of discourse
ordinary as the afternoon
then home to supper
Bibliomania
I fell into a hole of books
and everything
even my wife
happened as in a book
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