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Wednesday, 10 June 2026

Iain catleugh hutchinson (final/draft)

 



Iain catleugh hutchinson 1 of 1 

your grotted mouth merchant smooth 

tears on Church Road, Battersea 

I look inside your imperial compound 

premises that leak & break 

into your children you wake 

washed clean into 14 company directives 

& ply the syringe into the new unborn 

portfolios marquees twisted avarice  

these words onto your face

stamped I don’t want 

that shit on our throats 

snakes & ladders or bullion ice 

I peeled from you 

think you can drink forever

on some cordoned fence 

this is my night of glass 

my scarlet horsehair wig 

my starimpaled reprisal  

in white ash around 

your husk perimeter the unit

of horological excellence 

Quisling pig my pained impassioned plea 

its sidereal world alarm 

bangs a scythe into your back & 

the database value of you 

seeps from every pore you see

it will cost nothing, veto’d 

like my wildest wettest dream 

i flooded back into you 

through the smallest crevice 

self-triaged a disarmament of

ombudsman's you for me 

comes out dawning round your throat, 

the hallmarked dent of your hearts royal 

warrants finale choke