captured and converted

not by blind witnesses'

uninvited knocks;

with a lens

brought back to light

from a darked cupboard,

winter's gloom refracted

through retinal disorder

yearning for expression

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willed to work

-with a

--well

---worn

----warm smile

-wondering

--whether

---writing

----with her

-----who

------wonders

-------where you are

--------when you've

---------wandered

----------wistfully a

-----------way

------------with

-------------words

-wishing you'd

--write again and

---wondering

----what it takes

to break that block /

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1969 Dodge

My dad once pulled a promise

from me. He said

But you'll still speak

at my funeral, won't you?

What can you say to that

kind of question? I mean,

it's not even one you can dodge

at all. Not at all. No way.

cost-of-fatal-bullet

CNN reports from Tehran:

Parents of those killed

in protest

made to pay

$3,000 "bullet fee"

Opine, opine, opine

the blogging day -

sick-bag full of it

sycophantic slop

bilious barf

atrocious tripe

piss-poor poet-puke

flush fucking wanky words

down, down, down

Bringing it home

Three Fiesta doors pressed muffled shut

Like punches wrapped in towelled fist

The dent of gravelly footsteps crunch

Inside boundaries of rhododendron missed

3am provokes each flicked switch

To trail live curses in bleary wake

Not until the bolt rasps back

Does patterned pyjama armour take

- and grasp -

the third of five dull thuds

The Police Service of Northern Ireland say

they are investigating the shooting of

an unarmed man at his home in Shantallow

in the early hours of this morning.

They say his wife witnessed the attack.

In other news...

Mere words,

Penetrating

Neda

they mourn the voice of Iran

but I heard only silence broken

by anguished screams embracing you

as final pumps pushed red horror

from nose and mouth

Neda, unrushed and acquiescing

you seemed to accept your fate

until your eyes revolting

shot upwards to stare

in terminal complaint

You were courageous and beautiful to the end.

Neda Soltani ( Persian: ندا سلطانی ; born 1982, died 20 June 2009; age 26–27)