Martin O'Neill Poems

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31.
Well?

My mind squats
Inscrutable
A Japanese Toad.
Ugly, immovable, obstinate.
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32.
Celebrity Hack

Vitriolic rifts and schisms
Dress them up as witticisms
Underhanded criticisms
Paraded as a pretticism.
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33.
Strobe Insomnia

Clenched gatherings of black leathery wings
agitating against my breast
snittering and brushing close
As night stretches itself
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34.
Playtime For Teachers?

You got it wrong, you messed it up
How could you be so thick?
I ought to make you stand out front
And hit you with the Stick
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35.
Model Appearance

Chiffon shimmer through the glare
A flashgun marks each pose
Forwards, backwards, turn and stare,
A wilting wasted rose.
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36.
The Other Side Of Town

Time flows down the street
Sighing. Newspapers eddy
Circling along the shopfront
And catching on the bolts
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37.
Internether

In a room, alone
Blue screen flickers
Across a frown
A muttered imprecation
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38.
Forensics

' And now we hand over to Jenny on the island of Jersey where allegations of child abuse at a former children's home are being investigated by the local police who have reported finding


Bones
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39.
Breakfast Musings

We need to run tests,
The doctor said
To eliminate cancer.
But what, I thought
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40.
War At Christmas

A diamond fell from her eye,
Shattered in slow motion
As it collided with the bauble
And vanished into the carpet.
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