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nine poems

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We smell only gutters of excrement and odour

hurtling blue lights choking the canvas of evening,

where screams of madness bellow from top floor flats;

vinegary eyes blinded by black urine,

a moon chalked in the sky like a gargoyle stares at the

closed gates,

chained onto iron lips - a seer injured by daylight.