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Nsayers: /* Hannah Cicely Lloyd */ 80 > So

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‎Hannah Cicely Lloyd: 80 > So

Nsayers: /* Mike Bliss */ Poems retrieved from Archive.org

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‎Mike Bliss: Poems retrieved from Archive.org

Nsayers: Reorganise, add Hannah Cicely Lloyd

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Reorganise, add Hannah Cicely Lloyd

Nsayers at 00:17, 19 June 2009

2009-06-19T00:17:15Z

Nsayers: Create page and add Naomi and Mike's poems

2009-04-28T15:03:55Z

Create page and add Naomi and Mike's poems

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Poems written in response to the [[Brighton & Hove|Brighton Naked Bike Ride]].

===Silly Streetniks===

''By Naomi Foyle''

The Silly Streets Co-ordinator tips his top hat 
to the Emperor of Empathy, who’s out on East St 
in a purple Smurf suit, hugging everyone who needs him. 
It’s a beautiful morning, the lamp posts tingly with dew 
and soon the streets will be spinning 
with spontaneous ridiculosity and random jolly trolleys.

Anarchic Action Annie, a slim battery of rebellion, 
is planting pencils in the pavement, red twigs 
she snapped up at the last branch of Woolies. 
She’ll sprinkle them all day, with her green duck watering can, 
until a memorial avenue of wood and lead 
sprouts unpaid bills above her head.

At noon, the Naked Cyclists meet the Naked Speed Daters 
at the Pier. No-one’s going tandem yet, but 
getting a handle on un-spoken emotion, they rally, 
two by two along the seafront, comparing comfy saddles, 
writing poems in sun cream down each other’s arms, 
and switching partners at the trill of a bell.

As for the non-acronym-inous, non-acrimonious 
Vegetarian Smokers Support Group — not to be confused 
with the South East Visigoth Elocution Network — 
at two pm they’re setting up stocks outside City Hall 
and nominating nine non-hypocritical members of the public 
to pelt them with organic tomatoes.

All afternoon the Flash Fiction Flaneur 
will be strolling North Laine, taking notes, 
before stopping for tea in the Pavilion Gardens, where 
at four o’clock, by the foxgloves and hollyhocks, 
he’ll perform his latest postcard epics, 
his black Mac billowing around him like a sail.

Of course there will be tight-rope treading violinists, 
cream-pie wielding Buddhists, and Vicious Usherettes 
in yellow Unhappy Face T-Shirts 
selling ‘Life’s Not Funny’ buttons, 
while Operation Chai Wallah will kettle the police 
in its ‘Have another cuppa, copper?’ drag-net of St James’ Street.

And as the sky turns red and pink and orange 
with the realisation it’s been made a bleeding fool of all day, 
the Mad Maxi-Pad Scientists with their White Kotex Coats 
and solar powered Sili-ometre, will officially report 
on the ludicly ludicrous oscillyations sallying forth 
from this crackpot little city into the Universe… 

and if today’s extravaganza of eccentricity has set a new World record, 
every single Silly Streetnik can go home and sleep 
the sleep of the deeply dippy, dream the dreams of the amply absurd.

===Poems by Mike Bliss===

*[http://www.theblisspages.com/cms.php?id=413 the naked cyclist]
*[http://www.theblisspages.com/cms.php?id=501 does my bum look big on this?]
*[http://www.theblisspages.com/cms.php?id=508 awakening]

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 If I had a big camera I'd not need to undress<br />
 As soon as I'm naked I'm shot by the press<br />
-I sit on a blanket with a sweet looking girl<br />
+So I sit on a blanket with a sweet looking girl<br />
 Legs pulled up tight, I cannot unfurl<br />
 She comes from Croatia, not doing the ride<br />

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 ==Mike Bliss==
-*[http://www.theblisspages.com/cms.php?id=413 the naked cyclist]
+===Awakening===
-*[http://www.theblisspages.com/cms.php?id=501 does my bum look big on this?]
-*[http://www.theblisspages.com/cms.php?id=508 awakening]
+It emerged shyly from its cocoon<br />
 ==Peter Glyn Jones==
 [http://www.timemorph.co.uk/photohtm/20wnbr-brighton/wbplate1.html Protest song to the tune of the 'Teddy Bear's Picnic']

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 Poems written in response to the [[Brighton & Hove|Brighton Naked Bike Ride]].
-===Silly Streetniks===
+== Hannah Cicely Lloyd ==
-''By Naomi Foyle''
+''Inspired by the 2016 ride (via [http://www.facebook.com/groups/4616787846/permalink/10154409443247847/ Facebook]):''
 The Silly Streets Co-ordinator tips his top hat<br />
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 the sleep of the deeply dippy, dream the dreams of the amply absurd.
-===Poems by Mike Bliss===
+==Mike Bliss==
 *[http://www.theblisspages.com/cms.php?id=413 the naked cyclist]
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 *[http://www.theblisspages.com/cms.php?id=508 awakening]
-===Poems by Peter Glyn Jones===
+==Peter Glyn Jones==
 [http://www.timemorph.co.uk/photohtm/20wnbr-brighton/wbplate1.html Protest song to the tune of the 'Teddy Bear's Picnic']

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		+	===Poems by Peter Glyn Jones===
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		+	[http://www.timemorph.co.uk/photohtm/20wnbr-brighton/wbplate1.html Protest song to the tune of the 'Teddy Bear's Picnic']