FRODE MARKHUS
Golden Retrievers
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mothership
fathers slip
Mothers of Invention
I call to you
in someone’s
mother tongue
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Tied Pipers
Hooded Hoodlums in salty doldrums
snapped hamstrings
in murky bass
drums
in flaky blazers
awashed in wooden lazers
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in tongues
in mothers
tongues in mothers
in tongues in cheeks
in Cheeks & Chongs arguing with the fish
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Cheeky bastards speaking in tongues speaking of Babel
speaking about the Devil :
Mr Belzebub
Wuzup?
with all these Babylonian fathers fathering tongues all over the place?
Speaking in wrongs?
Ripping seams?
Sippin’ on that gin’n’sap
smashing beams?
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West Coast East Coast thinktank tic toc
tic toc
ticklish clocks of flight
taking a nap
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Talking Heads remaining in light
Head and Shoulder
dandruff avalanches
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something
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just just right right
your Honour
about endless nights
Clueless
oh Alicia where have you gone?
On your Silverstone tires?
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drifting here and there
polar shift Tokyo Drift fumenee fumenee e e e skreetchy luminee
catching the drift
polar bears burning rubber
burning something
dreaming something
about caramel swirls something
on topless girls something
being all curly curly something
furry ferries drifting all over the place something
something strawberry dream something strawberry shake something
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making that mess
making that shake
the Monkeeeees singing I’m a believer
Golden Retrievers in goldchains
Harry Houdini in chainmails
Henry Manchini in Pink Panther in the flesh
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itchy
fluffy
golden
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why don’t you call me Mr Anything-But-Black Retriever?
I feel like flying
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nowhere going nowhere on high heels high feels low keels slippery eels sniffing the wind sniffing the
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wind sniffing the telephone
why don’t you call me?
Mr Telephone?
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two for tits three for tats
Cats for Kings
kingmaker cookiebaker matchmaker catshaker
shaking and baking
kings
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shakebaker troublemaker heartbreaker pacemaker doubledipper shapeshifter
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blockbuster
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Buster Keaton
you're the best
Why don’t you call me?
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I’m drifting