Adrian Henri Poems

I wanted your soft verges
But you gave me the hard shoulder..
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Don't worry
If your boyfriend doesn't treat you right
baby
Everything's going to be all right
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At 3 p.m. yesterday, a Mr Adolphus Edwards, a Jamaican immigrant, was pecked to death by a large Bronze Eagle in Upper Parliament St. A U.S. State Dept. spokesman said later, `We have no comment to make as of this time.'
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I wouldn't leave my little 8­roomed house for you
I've got one missus and I don't want two
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I.

The same old soldiers walking along the same old skyline
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It was our first great war
And after the first successful sortie
Into the nomansgland between her thighs
We waited anxiously every month
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(Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 54­G4 Tate Gallery London April­June 1964) No. 54 Jean Dubuffet 'Déclinaison de la Barbe' 1. 1959
'as­tu cuilli les fleurs de la barbe?'
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Albion's most lovely daughter sat on the banks of the Mersey dangling her landing stage in the water.
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A nun in a supermarket
Standing in the queue
Wondering what its like
To buy groceries for two.
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I'd been out the night before & hadn't seen the papers or the telly
& the next day in a café someone told me you were dead
And it was as if a favourite distant uncle had died
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