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Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write.

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  • brianbilston@mastodon.onlineB brianbilston@mastodon.online

    Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.

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    @brianbilston

    "I am a bowl, chipped at the rim
    Never to be filled up with cereal again by him
    No more will I be filled up with Captain Crunch all the time,
    He really should grow up and pick a different kind"

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    • brianbilston@mastodon.onlineB brianbilston@mastodon.online

      Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.

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      • brianbilston@mastodon.onlineB brianbilston@mastodon.online

        Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.

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        @brianbilston

        Please don't do that, it's disgusting!

        No! Don't smell that; you don't know where that's been

        Stop trying to lick that; I don't know the flavor of spleen -- don't ask again!

        Ack! Stop humming that! Now a sound worm is tunneling through my brain

        Why am I still dating him? Um, let me try to explain...

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        • brianbilston@mastodon.onlineB brianbilston@mastodon.online

          Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.

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          @brianbilston i love that first one....

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          • capnthommo@c.imC capnthommo@c.im

            @brianbilston I want to know more of Carter and his ladder. Also, I too grieve for Newport Pagnell, swallowed up by the vastness that is Milton Keynes. But not as much as I do for Olney.😉

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            #29

            @capnthommo These lines provide more questions than answers.

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            • asprinkleofsage@mastodon.socialA asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social

              @brianbilston ...or have you just made a new poem?

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              @ASprinkleofSage I’ve no idea what I’ve done.

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              • illetteratolettore@mastodon.unoI illetteratolettore@mastodon.uno

                @brianbilston Gonna feed them to an AI or two and make a song

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                @illetteratolettore There’ll be none of that now.

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                • thejikz@infosec.exchangeT thejikz@infosec.exchange

                  @brianbilston
                  In the vaccum between when and how, I squat.
                  I saw a curiousity then, and now, I thought:
                  A free line or five or ten about chow, or nought
                  Why not add to them while I drop trow, on pot.

                  Cheers!

                  #poetry #shitpost

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                  @thejikz Thank you

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                  • gillinger@mas.toG gillinger@mas.to

                    @brianbilston
                    Ode to Disastrous Taste.

                    Me and you in matching tank tops
                    On the march to Ban the Bomb,
                    Early seventies brown and beige were
                    Worn by you with such aplomb.

                    I thank you!

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                    #33

                    @Gillinger lovely stuff

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                      @Su_G You may be right

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                      • rvedotrc@tech.lgbtR rvedotrc@tech.lgbt

                        @brianbilston It's been a while since I wrote any poetry, and this probably demonstrates why that might be a good idea.

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                        @rvedotrc Thank you, Rachel, for finding a home for that line

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                        • tattie@eldritch.cafeT tattie@eldritch.cafe

                          @brianbilston
                          I am a bowl, chipped at the rim
                          A hairline crack running down to the base
                          Can I still contain all you ask of me?
                          Popcorn: yes, tomato soup? I don't know
                          Shame on me, if I were to leak and ooze
                          Staining your fingers tomato-orange
                          Would your face twist in disgust?
                          Would you throw me out with the trash?
                          I have beauty still, and my shape yet holds
                          Place me on your table, a centrepiece
                          I am not too broken
                          To be there
                          To hold
                          Your love

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                          @Tattie You’ve taken that in a beautiful direction

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                          • slowtiger@berlin.socialS slowtiger@berlin.social

                            @brianbilston

                            I see you forgot the fabric softener again
                            I'm not angry, just disapointed
                            I will just look without speaking
                            at the trousers, standing in the corner

                            (this of course is an echo to "Lederhosensaga" by Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen, https://krautjunker.com/2023/03/20/lederhosen-saga/, as a child I already had memorized the refrain "Geschlechter kommen, Geschlechter vergehen, hirschlederne Reithosen bleiben bestehen")

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                            #37

                            @slowtiger Wonderful!

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                              @emmadavidson Ha ha! Good for you. Did many of them get spotted?

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                              • brianbilston@mastodon.onlineB brianbilston@mastodon.online

                                Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.

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                                @brianbilston I might set these to music, using only these first lines and no other text, with the page numbers as number of bars. Will make a nice challenge (especially the 78 one).

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                                • slowtiger@berlin.socialS slowtiger@berlin.social

                                  @brianbilston

                                  That my dear, is a diphthong
                                  to keep your fingers clean
                                  just grab the chipth with the thongs
                                  and dip it in the thaltha.

                                  (Title "The lithping Mexican")

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                                  @slowtiger 🙂

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                                  • annasaultron@nerdculture.deA annasaultron@nerdculture.de

                                    @brianbilston

                                    Oi! Oi!

                                    Oi!
                                    Oi?
                                    Oi! Oi!!
                                    OI! OI?!
                                    OI?!! OI!!?
                                    Oi! oi...
                                    oi oi..
                                    oi... oi?!
                                    OI!!!
                                    oi? oi???
                                    oi!!!
                                    oi... oi?!?
                                    Oi?
                                    Oi??
                                    OI?
                                    OI!!
                                    OI!!! OI!!!
                                    oI... Oi...
                                    oI...
                                    OI...

                                    Silently they wept.

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                                    @AnnaSaultron That’s a work of beauty, Anna

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                                    • superflippy@mastodon.xyzS superflippy@mastodon.xyz

                                      @brianbilston Today we shall make strudel
                                      from the last of the flour,
                                      then journey forth into
                                      an uncaring world
                                      together.
                                      Solidarity.

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                                      @superflippy Stirring words

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                                      • markmason@mas.toM markmason@mas.to

                                        @brianbilston
                                        Please don’t do that it’s disgusting
                                        Was what they used to say
                                        When I did that thing I used to do
                                        to make you go away
                                        But years have passed and
                                        We are cast
                                        in different roles today
                                        So now you do it with me
                                        And I like it more that way

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                                        @markmason Beautiful, mysterious and moving

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                                        • brianbilston@mastodon.onlineB brianbilston@mastodon.online

                                          Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.

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                                          @brianbilston

                                          her eyes were a question mark, her mouth a semi-colon
                                          her ears parentheses to her bold face
                                          the caret of her nose pointed to something lacking
                                          no character in her empty header space

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