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The Snapper Lady

John was the kind of guy who'd push a beer glass in your face for catching his eye. He was just like that. Especially if he'd had a skin full. John liked his skin full. He'd been like that since he was a kid he was always getting into trouble, he even attacked the teachers at school if they upset him. He didn't go to school much for one reason or another. The teachers didn't mind.

Pain-Things

no one knows or even guesses, the faces so completely together, so known, so famous even....

Thoughts

I hate you sometimes. You deserve to know that. I dream in Technicolor while I am living in shades of gray.

Munch's Silent Scream

haiku competition
Cherry

Fridge Magnet

Perhaps, sometime, after all this madness with ours hands and tongues......

The growing Beast of the South

after reading an article in the press about the North-South divide

ROMANCE ISN'T FOR EVERYONE

Short fictional poem.

Bar At The Folies Bergere

From a visit to the Courtauld gallery (thanks, Alison!)
Cherry

ETHEL.

shiny shoes

a slightly angry poem about middle-management types

Polly Filler.

THERE ARE REPORTS IN THE MEDIA THAT SO CALLED 'HEALTH FOODS' ARE GIVING SOME CAUSE FOR CONCERN. APPARENTLY AN EXCESS OF POLYUNSATURATES CAN CAUSE HALLUCINATIONS AND STALE MUESLI HAS BEEN FOUND TO CONTAIN TRACE ELEMENTS OF LYSERGIC ACID. LET'S GO AND EXPAND OUR MINDS AND SCORE SOME GRUB.

It's all about you

I found a letter you wrote me last night. It made me cry. Hot, fierce tears that cascaded down my face. i couldn't stop them. You are my biggest regret. The way things ended prematurely, before we'd had a chance. But then at sixteen how was i to know what love was, how was i to know i loved you truely.

Blind By Love....

Loving someone older then yourself is not an easy task....
Cherry

Forked Tongues

You didn't go paying house calls in this part of the estate for the sake of social nicety. Normally it was to scrounge a few coins to call a dealer, to borrow, to beg or steal on someone's giro day. There was always a motive of self-interest if you scratched at the surface for long enough around Lotus Court.

HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO STAY FAITHFUL?

He sits alone at the bar when a physically attractive woman sits uncomfortably close to him.

Everytime, I'm sorry

Every time doors have slammed, Every time voices have risen, Every time I've wished to be somewhere else, I'm sorry,

DRESS TO IMPRESS

Just a hopefully light-hearted idea I had!

SPIRIT HELPER

A young woman is feeling very low-spirited.

Over And Done.

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Does it matter?

It's always been you that I dream of at night It's always been you who I've longed to hold me tight. You were my first love, my greatest love, my only love You are my current love, my always love, my eternal love.

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