Code book compass

charting ways to dead ends.

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*

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Is this Room 101?

Sorry, my mistake,

got the wrong key from hotel reception.

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Ego, ECG, MOT.

Low level hum disruptors.

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Hospital garment design unglamorous.

Who would do such a thing?

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Big events:

You didn’t know what to wear

so you wore it all.

You didn’t know how to live

so you lived it all.

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Quiet life?

Come, bail me out.

Everyone is busy

finishing off weekend jigsaws.

Will they coalesce caring

around another box?

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*

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Room 101?

Sorry, my mistake,

got the wrong key from Matron.

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Good vibes only, please?

Good vibes only, please?

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1. I would rather die for love,

but I haven’t yet.

2. Squander yourself

in every direction.

3. Paint pictures

by numbers.

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What’s death? What’s next?

What’s distance?

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You live, you die.

It’s not complex.

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Everyone has a Judgement day.

Life comes at random prices.

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*

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Room 101?

Sorry, my mistake,

got the wrong key from Devil deception.

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The Grim Reaper makes rules up as it goes along.

Give Fallen-Angel-Door-staff, the day off.

Dress code?

Come as you are.

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New parts for old, please?

Plastic lasts longer.

Change everything?

Keep the same heart.

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*

Scared of Obeah?

Scared of being?

Shy bairns get nowt.

If your yams are white, cover them up.

People say the same codes

all over the globe.

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We chastise –

Our kids in Chic

Wafer-thin white coats,

sole-free canvas shoes.

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We remember

putting on practical wax jackets.

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When we are gone,

will we still care

how cold

the wind blows?

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Fever:

Friends and fiends disappointing; dissipated.

Matriarch says no moping; got to go out.

New clothes for old.

Be ladylike.

Whatever that means?

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Fog follows.

‘The wobble’ is not a dance craze.

Us against nature.

Dimensions change, please?

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Measure steps, hollow legs.

Scoop out putrefying gloop.

1. Don’t bother with keys.
2. Don’t bother with sleep.
3. Don’t bother with dreams.

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*

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Rooms are full of liars,

wielding electrodes.

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Fragments?

Puzzle pieces numbered?

1. One less day
2. One less argument
3. Fight back
4. One less horseman
5. One less [me + you]

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Inappropriate clothing for the final event:

1980s puffed sleeves?

Never coming back in style,

but snoods are!

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Is that because,

in every era,

people wonder

how cold the wind blows?

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Interlude or anecdote?

TV: tennis, cricket, soccer?

The sport of life? Dive.

Con the ref. Man Utd Fergie time.

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*

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Rooms are full of liars

with truthful eyes.

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One less? We have one more?

Have we lost the ability to count the days?

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*

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

Every body who comes

can’t go with you.

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Jettison

Release

Liberate

Unfetter

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That is why

we are:

Different in the little moments.

Same in the big moments.

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A mosaic is made up of broken pieces of a life

It is still a beautiful thing, a work of art.

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*

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

1. Whatever poem I have to recite.
2. Whatever song I have to sing.
3. Whatever code I have to break.

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KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

4. Whichever room I have to enter

to

drag

you

out

for

one

more

day.