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Safe

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Forget the sass of the satirist – spell it out: plain please.
And if some are sulkier for their likenesses and aliases
on-screen for any super-user’s pet pretense
let them fester I say; Continue reading →

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October 26, 2017October 26, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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season’s anagram (autumn comes)

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the wind moans in the cote
as it tunes canto (odd muso)
on manse doors and eaves.
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October 4, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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So electrical (2)

moon over coral atoll

Here we are on the edge — to leap or resile
into something new. Continue reading →

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September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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So anagrammatic

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My literal realist (so irate) selects
recital reels, assails me with artless titles —
‘tart’, ‘sl*t’. An iota I’ll alter (retort: all lies!).
Take to the costlier cast; I’ll, the elastic.

Continue reading →

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September 23, 2017September 23, 2017 peterfrankiswrites
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