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Devices & Desires

ByMike Bell

.. we fail to realise how unnecessary many things are Seneca – Letters from a Stoic I may forbear fingering … More Devices & Desires →

ByMike Bell

There were lights & sounds
late last night in our funeral
home – busy on newly dead
[quick-quick] as subfusk inks
are let awry on diary pages …/

ByMike Bell

In 1984 our enemies
were evident – easier
days to direct choler
with words – we spat
sneers & swilled gob
in our mouths
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ByMike Bell

So how will this [sh!]
viral infection expose
modern insecurities –
will roaming decline?
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ByMike Bell

He who arrives late
has no bed – said to
me in jest but truer
now that our world
finds loathing easy
to spread
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ByMike Bell

‘Admired for his deathbed performance’
& ‘infamous in his time for his life’ – two
lines of internet biography ensnare his
three decades of verve
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ByMike Bell

[Me] It was easily missed – shared threats
of World War Three Not being there on
social media & spending one le week-end
bunkered
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ByMike Bell

I yearn for a retreat
from my devices &
my vice of red-eyed
hours – do not wake
me – space spills in
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