20.0k

Miss Demeanour

Dylan Harris

20.0k

Miss Demeanour

Dylan Harris

Potato Press

by Dylan Harris

4 anticipating the metaverse, 3 nation six dog, 2 discard

chapbooks

20.0: r dye-de-ho, q antwerp, p tension nitro ego, o church is dangerous vital, n tin rush, m the A rush, l an engineering rush (ii), k Miss Demeanour, j flock state, i be infinity, h Namings, g nation six dog, f uncivil law, e dead write, d chase chase, c an engineering rush (i), b a much for we, a The Joy Of Tax

19.9: c Inn, b Swoop, a An Ode To The A14

19.8: c Rose, b Hymnen, a Darmstadt

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Poems

remembering the slits

lou reed

Dog Sound

8.11.3

bacon

Epigrams

when the morons declared war

look rich apple grows

fifty year guess

english garden

remembering the slits

twenty–five years

the slits punking girls

rebel man’s desire

ramp firing

intra–fighting

music fem

but me i was just another punters’ ears

a rebel man never slashed the air guitar

i was nil in no–ones’ useless army

they created

jammed recorded

punking girls

a moment a slit a table football

i won wow what an achievement

fuck that

freeborn girls

never typical

sound exciters

remember

revolt neutered by “what’s the point”

the irate driven angry priest of shan’t

twenty–five years

how many fire recall

rage the dawn away

they’ll be mothering

teenage–daughtered

house–worn

forget wallpaper

i’ll throw the guacomole

decorate their empire

lou reed

his the voice of

dark desert rainstorm wind

form the happen pray

Dog Sound

king charles spaniel

doggy doggy dog dog dog dog doggy dog

doggy dog doggy dog doggy doggy dog dog

doggy dog doggy dog doggy doggy doggy dog

doggy dog dog dog dog dog doggy dog

labrador

dawg

dawg dawg

dawg

dawg dawg

dawg

dogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdogdog

dawg

dawg

dawg dawg

dawg

dawg

dawg

west highland white terrier

d d d d d d d d

d d d d d d d

d d d d d d d d

d d d d d d d

d d d

d d d

d d d d d d d d

d d d d d d d

Miss Demeanour

kit kat kit kat kitty kitty kitty kat

kitty kat kitty kat kit kit kat

kitty kat kitty kat kitty kitty kitty kat

kit kat kit kat kitty kitty kat

kitty kat kitty kat kitty kitty kitty kat

kitty kat kitty kat kit kit kat

kitty kat kitty kat kit kit kit kat

kitty kat kitty kat kit kit kat

kit kat kit kat kitty kitty kity kat

kit kat kit kat kitty kitty kat

katty kat katty kat katty katty katty kit

kat kit kat kit katty katty kat

8.11.3

quake press delia

hellip

wayback machine lifeboat

launch tar vinegar

cat ten percent

operational palak saag

we’ve

cubozoans kill gravity

radio broadcasting three

pints of milk

won’t boot

/ .

bacon

yesterday’s dusk sky

junket cream day–glow bacon

oh what pretty fumes

Epigrams

On The West

hanging prisons

revenge re

venge

Money’s the smack of the west.

On Al–Qaida

you’re dozing

you don’t feel a sharp pain

the mosquito is fed and gone

you’re dozing

you feel a sharp pain

you wake

the mosquito flies away

you build a dyke

drain the swamp

all mosquitos die

a yappy dog

finds the pack of sleeping lions

creeps to the biggest

bites a nose

all the lions will cower

the yappy dog believed

al–qaida

islam’s traitor

sixty years ago

the enemy destroyed our cities

we destroyed theirs

and them

thirty years ago

an enemy wrecked so many human souls

now this enemy’s only home

a lab

i think

it’s more because

the fools are noisy

waking the baby

On Islam

a firework dies

in explosion

and sharp colour

a psychotherapist

helps an ailing man

look inside himself

find the true cause

of all his evil seen

if you don’t laugh at yourself

you can’t honestly appraise yourself

if you can’t honestly appraise yourself

you don’t know where you’re at

if you don’t know where you’re at

you’re lost

On Science

science reflects the art of God.

when faced with contradictory truths

select the truth with the strongest proof

if contradictory truths

have irrefutable proofs

they don’t contradict

you’ve misunderstood

if you can’t resolve

irrefutable contradictory truths

go meta

if objects cannot occupy

the same space

at the same time

how can you look up

to a sheet of sky

see two birds

intersect

untouched

when the morons declared war

the youth me new to work temping

signing on weeks off

accused of working claiming

they decided appealed decided

not tell

i sawn a letter nicely saying

fuck off you bastard

had they bothered to inform

i'd have told em

“you’re pissing your own knickers

i didn't claim that week”

hence the arsehole reputation

of bureaucracy

look rich apple grows

this memory key

opens graves

look rich apple grows

fifty year guess

America pax

complaced

exhausted Israel Palestine

Egypt Lebanon Jordan

template EU as MU

no Syria

EU

Balkan step step Turkey irony

aggregate Morocco Tunisia Algeria Iran

Moldova Iceland mmm

Syria Norway Switzerland no

more was Soviet no

UK nationalisms

England civil war three

nationalists satan empathy

victorise hatred

EU expels shamed shout England

Poul Dayker pogrom dictator

executes executes

England civil war four

blood and stalemate

Scotland invades

Ireland France grim support

impose Caledonian composite

happier US careful neutral

bases closed bristled

Edinburgh UK2 drum machine

seven million dead by nationalism

well done daily mail

you’ll live your dream short

high on junky hatred

old empires

of old territory

power

China superpower

might shake America

just bit oddments

must be nothing

Brasil power

India power

Russia repaired

sees China

aware uncare EU

India Russia China EU

four marionetteers

of Pakistan Afghanistan Kashmir

no peace

Africa still fuckup toy

despite South Africa Nigeria

China direct Asia Australia

Japan tense

China integration

America in Taiwan stand off

China hacks US

snap invade snap win

snap US military prisoned

China unified

occupies America moon Mars

US stilled incredulous

US dereferences for global boil

China relents

return moon Mars

troops not technology

EU wet scared

got American technology

need else now

Russia wet scared

neighboured rampant superpower

need strength now

EU Russia unite

Moscow Strasbourg one

Ukraine Belorus Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan join

Kazakstan Krygystan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Mongolia decline

new balls please

Beijing to serve

english garden

english sensibility +

wild texture beauty →

identikit monotony

6.6.6

20.0k Miss Demeanour

A Chapbook of poetry from Dylan Harris

20.0k Dylan Harris poetry poems

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