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Dark Poetry
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Interstellar Corduroy Roy by Stewart Stafford
Taunted since he was a boy,
Thorn-crowned “Corduroy Roy”,
Hurled across sanity’s border,
A reluctant thundercloud hoarder.
His spacesuit? Pants! - Shade? Maroon!
Playing soccer-tennis on the moon,
Astronaut dust, his alma mater,
Hitched to Earth in a pocket crater.
Leapfrogged back to terra firma,
Just in time for his dog’s dewormer,
Gravity’s cords in the machine, unclean,
Freed himself from the lunar silt routine.
© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All
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The Risk Assessor's Audit by Stewart Stafford
An actuary at the butcher’s table,
Serpentine watch-chain, strung as a noose,
Each second, costed with surgical élan,
Logging the theft in Babel columns loose.
The paper catacomb lies crumpled,
Its tenant, a doorway hobo in arrears,
The knowing leaseholder's smile worn,
Who'd changed the locks on all the years.
The mutilated currency of memories,
Clipped coinage set for melted dooms,
Dried blood trickles in the hourglass,
Turnkey guardian of vast,
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