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Chris Williams

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Dominique Spearey

                                  I'm just a rabbit in the headlights
                                  rabbit in the headlights
                                  A rabbit in the headlights of your love.

                                  Oh the treachery of memory
                                  It gushed up good and proper
                                  Yet - when all was said and done
                                  He was nothing but a rotter.

                                  But God he was so handsome
                                  His body poured in leather
                                  His winklepickers flashing
                                  His reputation as a raver.

                                  The smell of sweat enticing
                                  As she climbed upon his bike
                                  Her hormones starting racing
                                  As they rode off in the night.

                                  She was a rabbit in the headlights
                                  A rabbit in the headlights
                                  A rabbit in the headlights of his love.

                                  But.. ..he... really.... was .. quite... grubby
                                  His nails chewed to the quick
                                  And looking back in hindsight
                                  She just loved him for his prick.

                                  Oh the treachery of memory
                                  Often leading us astray
                                  Confusing glow of headlights
                                  With the cold clear light of day.

                                  I'm not a rabbit in the headlights
                                  A rabbit in the headlights
                                  A rabbit in the headlights of your love.

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KOLONN SANS HWATH

Mick Paynter
rag an Artydh Skows Brian O'Toole

                                        War dha dowl, O'Toole,
                                        o, ty dh'omdewlel
                                        gans el, splann es howl.
                                        Hag war dowl an el
                                        genes dh'omdewlel
                                        heb drog bys merwel.

          Na Nev, na Ifarn, po Purjyans ragos, nyns yw.
          Ytho, lymner, lemmyn, y lymnis lymnans, yth yw.....

          Ottena, omma....

                                        Pinta korev, wosa dha Soedh
                                        gans an Arloedh, hag y golonn ev
                                        war y vron y sev, a'th hesya'n arwoedh.

yn Sowsnek:

Another Sacred Heart

by Mick Paynter
For the Scouse Artist Brian O’Toole

                                        The plan was, O’Toole,
                                        for you to wrestle,
                                        with an angel bright as sun.
                                        And the angel’s plan
                                        with you harmlessly
                                        to wrestle’til death.

          Nor Heaven, nor Hell, or Purgatory, for you, there’s not.
          So, painter, now, a picture I did paint, it is.....

          See there, it’s here.....

                                        A pint of beer; when your Work’s clear,
                                        with the Good Lord, while his heart itself
                                        stands up on his breast, signifies your jest.

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A PRAYER

Previously in Orbis
Also on the web site of the Poetry Society
Raymond Humphreys

                                  O Lord of our Days,
                                  save us from the standard-setters;
                                  the hush-voiced counsellors;
                                  the inspectors; the auditors;
                                  the therapists and the charterers;
                                  the petition-makers;
                                  the ethical advisers.

                                  Please keep us from the clutches
                                  of all doctors, lawyers and accountants.
                                  Spare us the priests and law-makers:
                                  (anyone in a long black gown).
                                  Close our ears to the lying politicians.

                                  Let us creep softly into fat-arsed middle age
                                  without the child within withering away.
                                  And when our minds become fuddled with years,
                                  or drink, or straitened thoughts,
                                  keep a few crystals of truth
                                  alive in some bright corner.
                                  Let not madness, nor yet cold sanity
                                  overtake us.

                                  And when the time comes
                                  to switch off the light,
                                  Do it quickly.

                                  But not just yet.

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