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Jeremy Beardmore

Born in Torquay, Beardmore spent part of his childhood in South Africa. His recent poetry pamphlets include I'll Slap When I'm Dredd (This Room Press, 2011), and Just Chapsnax Me (TSoAG Press, 2012). He tries to help Samantha Walton to edit the poetry micro-press Sad Press (sadpress.wordpress.com), and Joe Luna to edit Hix Eros: Poetry Review. He is sometimes on Twitter (@jolwalton, @franciscrot, @hixeros), and after this he is on poetry strike.

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 when I was young it was fun,
we watched the train set together.tiff.
 & when it was later it was better,
we watched the rain wet the heather.tiff.

 ‘lips; lips arc far along the star-line.
 the possibility of small print
is the supple full extent of it’.þx.
 I wake up with a yucky mouth
full of dreams I
 would wish to yell out but
can’t remember how to mean:

& when I was less young it was best,

 we watched the sun set.tiff, in the West
 (except once, which was odd),
& you a princess in that light.tiff,
 & I, God.*,
& at night you’d wield whips & wear leather.mov,
& I kissed your hand.avi & made a list of my demands.rtf:

& now that we’re not, I think I’ve forgot,
 or tell what I remember in a ramble.arc,
sets of dentures.jpg, I think we’ve watched,
 but morning eyes hatch weary scramble.jpg,
& I forget, I forgot, adventures fade,
 it falls to Fate.* to guess which bits she made up,
& what I made up, but it’s too late,
 & whatnot, & too foolish, & too fucked-up, but,

I remember last night,
 we watched the TV set.jpg together,
because it sank to the hills.jpg & shone on the river.jpg
 & covered it all in Seinfeld.jpg in silver.jpg,
& the light.jpg seemed familiar.tiff,
 so I kissed your brow & made a vow.bat,
  as if I’d ever never.*.
I kissed you.* & I vowed to you.
 *.


‘Waiting for them to go and have a coffee together’ © Jeremy Beardmore. 

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