Alison Banville

Last Words

Last words  I’m truly beat Lower your weapon I’m in full retreat No truce No negotiated peace Just a dispirited Unsweet release One brief dispatch Before comms cease Then radio silence Permanently. There was…. No calculation No hidden meaning No ‘out to get you’ No Machiavellian scheming No guile No Pharaoh’s tomb trap No double speak No stab in the […]
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Last Word

No calculation No hidden meaning No ‘out to get you’ No Machiavellian scheming No guile No Pharaoh’s tomb trap No double speak No stab in the back No agenda! Can’t say it any clearer I’d say it face to face If you would let me nearer No other face to show All is shared This is it This is my […]
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Ghosted

So. I’ve been analysed And diagnosed With ‘undesirable personality disorder’ Examined for danger And found ‘unsafe for use’ I’ve been ghosted Labeled an ‘unperson’ Unworthy of interest Sent to Coventry Expunged from history Left freezing in the blast Of your Siberian indifference You have averted your gaze. Like a king, Withdrawn your favour. Kafkaesque I’m left wondering What the charges […]
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Be True

Be true, Be true To meThat’s all I need When my wounds bleedWhen blood flows outIt cleans my soulLays it bareMy story toldHere’s my heartIt’s yours to takeYours to healOr yours to breakIt’s in your powerNow I am boundTo raise me upOr cut me downTo bring me calmOr feed my fearTo cast me outOr hold me nearBut should you chooseTo cause […]
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Irresistible

I don’t want a pretty boy Who’s prettier than me With flowing hair And pools for eyes And ‘sensitivity’ Who’s always writing love notes And romantic poetry And saying that His ‘heart’s desire’ Is to be with me Who loves romantic gestures And boasts of how he yearns To hold me close forever Oh how my stomach turns! A man […]
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Buff-coat

‘Hey there ‘Buff-coat’! I know you! We were once comrades Brothers good and true We fought side by side In England’s bloody war Do you not remember me? Let me tell you more We marched along together Through England’s hill and vale And when we got to Putney We told a signal tale Our case was truly stated We thought […]
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New Year’s Message From BSNews: What Do We Really Want For Our Kids?

I’ve decided never to do anything I don’t want ever again as my New Year’s resolution! I don’t like making New Year’s resolutions actually so I’ve failed quite early on there – but from now on I won’t be doing a single thing I don’t want to! I don’t do much I don’t want to as it is to be […]
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Class War Romance

I met him on a train Heading out of Waterloo He was suited and booted A City gent through and through Late thirties maybe Coiffed to the nines He said ‘isn’t it dreadful These trains are never on time’ I replied ‘damn right! We need to stop rationalizing The whole fucking network Needs nationalizing!’ He looked at me Like I’d […]
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What Trump’s ‘Locker Room’ Banter Says About Women and Sex

This Trump ‘locker room’ banter controversy is really making me glad I know the decent men I do. Men who naturally see women as fellow human beings and who realize that masculinity is completely unrelated to machismo. It’s the real Lynx effect – and boys, it can never be sprayed on. And you just know Trump and his ilk would […]
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