Song for Piper

 

Closing The Deal

I just stumbled upon some scribbled random lines & words I'd hastily drafted in March 2017 and elsewhere a few scribbled random lines from April 2017. This afternoon I played around with the two separate entities before realising that they really belonged together, hence the following:
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Closing The Deal

once having flown

too close to a werewolf moon

he struggled to provide

a blueprint for his own

corrupted furrow –

his joy

was rarely ever real –

but cynicism

worn as self-defence

though jocular

was more

like the true deal-

he dreamt of heroes

but all too soon became

a doleful clown

Malcolm Evison

-         20 August 2019