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The Poetry Of...
Christopher Majors........................

Splash

Every Saturday night
he was there,
his array of designer fragrances
lining the mirror.
Politely offering patrons
a squirt to cover cig fumes
and bolster 'pulling power',
mask perfume before
taxis taken home.
Hurting no one,
all foreign accent
and wide smile;
six hours to squeeze
out the odd tip
under the keen noses
and blind eyes of
bull necked bouncers.

But not now.
Last Saturday
police were called,
the toilet floor
scrubbed for the first
time in months..........





777

He was known as 777;
unable to read or write
this was the moniker used
to book a turn at pool or cards.
Always alone and sucking a stout bottle,
occasionally he'd talk
of the 'old days',
mind churning times
of dancehalls and parties,
a bubbling social scene
now dried to a local bar.
Last time he was seen
was stumbling to winter air,
his breath like the steamy
puffs of something quenched.

Apparently he was found
surrounded by tinsel and a tree;
and though part of Christmas
was shunted to early Spring,
no one ever really felt the blow...........





RETCH

Life was unbearable.
Constantly being stopped
and questioned-
"Where are you going?"
"Where have you been?"
Clothes vetted,
mileage noted,
life a minefield,
any sudden explosion
meaning days in
sleeves and sunglasses.
Worse
was that patch
of worn carpet,
where made to stand
night after night
she faced a photograph
of a white wedding,
bride 'n' groom framed
at the church mouth
covered in thrown up rice.............







Bombers (a peace poem)

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the poem blown to bloody pieces and this line left as the horizon.





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