Walton Dam
Dog walking with a friend
It seems I have one!
© Rachel Green July 2026
Romantic Frisson
night sky
awash with pinpricks of light
after the evening glow has faded
and a shower of streaking meteors
as the space station falls.
At seventeen minutes to midnight
a child comes into the world
under the zodiac sign of Starlink.
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rewatching horror movies
after reading the explanation
quite rewarding
© Rachel Green July 2026
On Following the advice of Nursery Rhymes
who the fuck
sets a baby's cradle
at the top of a tree?
Oh! You thought it would send him to sleep?
It's blowing a fucking gale
no wonder he's crying.
And now there's some fucking Gremlin
sawing away at the branch
like it's lumberjack day at the funny farm.
Oh look! He's fallen
through the roof of the greenhouse
like a tiny Rod Hull.
At least the branch will give you planks
to make a tiny coffin.
I bet you're an antivaccer.
I'm calling Social Services
© Rachel Green July 2026
watching Hellraiser
women with 80s hair
real horror
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Bluebirds
someone I don't know
made entirely of wasted semen
claimed I looked like Rod Hull
Maybe it was a complement
maybe it was supposed to be insulting
but it was in interesting take.
So I filmed myself with my hand
rammed up a demon's arse
because I don't have a male bird
Because if I was Rod Hull
I would have instead
a massive blue cock
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baking powder
and cold porridge
dietary aid
© Rachel Green July 2026
American Sonnet
I think of you, and with my blade I dig
into your eyes (but still avoid the brain)
for I would have you suffer for your double gig
as money-grabbing president again.
I want to flay the flesh from living bones
reminding you of selfish policies
that reap rewards for you and you alone
and highlight your hypocrisies.
Then bleed thee dry, the way you have the land
and folk who trusted you with power
and find themselves with empty hand
while you increase your fortunes by the hour.
But I, of course, will do none of these things
for thoughts are legal, still, for commoners and kings.
© Rachel Green July 2026
cut potato
sprinkled with salt.
saucepan cleaner
© Rachel Green July 2026
Would you Dance with a Stranger?
Ruth Ellis was hanged at Holloway Prison
the last woman legally executed her
for killing her lover David Blakely.
It's taken seventy years
for her death sentence to be commuted
to life imprisonment.
Too little, too late,
but the Men of the Judicial System
deemed that Domestic Violence
was a man's right to inflict
and a woman's duty to accept.
Ruth Ellis said no,
and after another miscarriage
from being punched in the stomach,
she made a stand.
She should have been lauded
but the men executed her instead.
© Rachel Green July 2026
a box marked Virgin
I want to despoil it now
DK says no
© Rachel Green July 2026
"Legislator of the Year"
for twenty-twenty-three
awarded by 'Moms for Liberty'
went to Republican RJ May.
It's almost as if they want people to blame
for all the child sex trafficking
so they chose the Queer community
as the scapegoat pariahs
when it's all just a smokescreen
for so-called 'normal' men
to have sex with toddlers and infants
and share the pictures online
like RJ May who pled guilty as charged.
© Rachel Green July 2026
early walk
without his muzzle on
Gobby Gobshite.
© Rachel Green July 2026
Café coffee
while waiting for my pupils to dilate
from the stinging liquid drops.
The lady next to me
rough as a cat's tongue
gobbing off at a group of teenage kids
making fun of the disabled.
Thanking her for saying what she did,
for I would not have the courage
in such an outnumbered fight:
me against only three?
I'm too polite.
© Rachel Green July 2026
