Flinders

FLINDERS

Leopard skin initiations into motel aggregates induces

Inbedded devils dangling promises to prestige scenarios

Zippers ripped presumptuously trouble the floundering couple

Asterixes ringing in their eyes as love-dosed smorgasbord insues

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Sister was a witch

Had she a secret hut?

In the wilderness men met her

When a horse was lost

Its master carried off

by invaders, people

played chess on the rocks

For peanut shells

that fed the elephants

They played the trumpet

for girls in pigtails

who applauded with small palms

And the men imitating chickens

squawked at the dubious clerks

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Prostitutes dangling handkerchiefs

Arranging the ends of their merit

Where a champion lands

Sea-weed entangled, amnesiatic

Mongol warriors wheedle their

moustaches meditatively

The creatures tied his wrists

to a log and hauled him off

Back to the village to cook

For a shiny coward