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Shorter Poems and Longer Thoughts by Ruaridh Maybery

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Seasonal

Like ermine in the summertime,

I’ll need you

Six months ago.

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Where are you Lord?

If God was anywhere,

He’d be crashing on your couch.

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Harsh Marker

The kind of swine

To round 9.5

Down to 9.

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Tea > Coffee

I strolled from Wandsworth to Ealing,

Sipping upon a Darjeeling;

Coffee, I think,

Is an inferior drink,

Which I can never taste the appeal in.

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Home for a Night Out

I once travelled from Oxford to Leam,

For an evening of drinking with friends;

I felt my gut flutter,

Puked in a gutter,

Then headed to Oxford again.

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Breakfast

Snort your Adderall off a cereal bowl

In the family kitchen:

Breakfast is the most important meal

When it comes to your cognition.

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Obsession

A word on obsession:

It’s only an issue

If you’ve fewer than two.

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My Blue Suede Shoes

My blue suede shoes

Are a size too small,

As are these lines.

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The Hourglass Body

She has an hourglass body.

By which I mean,

That the last few grains of sand are sinking into the lower atrium.

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Schooled

I thought I was the homonym phenomenon,

But today an eight-year-old informed me that chilli is a contranym.

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