{"id":1690,"date":"2026-04-12T14:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/?page_id=1690"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:06:03","slug":"heaped-like-childhood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annettesmyth.com\/index.php\/heaped-like-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaped Like Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heaped Like Childhood<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

heaped like childhood touch and smell
\nand colours of the carousel\u00a0
\nan empty street\u00a0
\nwhere no ghosts meet\u00a0
\npainted houses\u00a0
\ncowboy trousers
\nand over there\u00a0
\nbeware the bear
\nnearer here
\nice cold beer\u00a0
\nwhich charms a cobra hockey stick\u00a0
\nthat rises up and dares to lick
\nabove the hapless toungueless skull\u00a0
\nalas poor Yorick, life has come full
\ncircle no more magic tricks\u00a0
\nyou'll never ride route sixty six\u00a0
\nmuch less drink Pepsi, munch a Tayto
\nwhere did summer sunshine's day go\u00a0
\nrage like Dylan Thomas might\u00a0
\nagainst the dying of the light
\npaint vibrant colours false but sweet\u00a0
\npaint men on horseback on our lonely street\u00a0\u00a0



\nby Richard Ball<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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