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Poets and their editors down in the school yard
 
Miss! Miss!  Jack just puked
up his last three stanzas,
Simon's after standing  in it.
 
For God's sake
I'm a professional
do I have to deal with this?
Word vomit stinks like hell.
Get Beckett from
the janitor's room.
He can clean it up.
No ifs, ands or buts
(and tell him to bring the bleach).
 
Now. What was I saying?
Oh yes. Sally.
In my opinion
her assonance is more like
cognitive dissonance.
Give her an enema
for her vowel problem,
and tell her to stick to a diet
of consonants
and glottal stops.
 
Got to run.
Meeting Larkin.
Parents complaining
their darling little darlings
won't take out
any fucking words.
 
Gardening leave.
Don't give me that look -
can't he write nature poems?

© copyright Alison Hackett   (first posted online 1 September 2016)

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The Visual Time Traveller
This is a labour of love, insanity, beauty and, perhaps, an attempt to reintegrate history, art and science together again.
  Simon Cocking Irish Tech News

​Not only is she forced to share a small city with da Vinci, he has even turned up in the same postal district.  Frank McNally The Irish Times

Crabbing
Her range of language is both staccato and soft, in succinct verse, which encourages you to read this aloud, truly the best way to engage in the emotional depth of a poem. 
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Deirdre Conroy Sunday Independent
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      • Cruise ships in Dun Laoghaire harbour a Titanic mistake
      • An Irishwoman's Diary
      • On Dun Laoghaire (and walking the pier)
      • Typos
      • The Institute of Psychics?
      • The Physics PR Minefield
      • When Design Matters
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