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Embarrassment!
Do you know the story of Thomas and the mine? the roof broke, he fell in, because he’d disobeyed the sign. His pride thought he knew better … – triumphantly he went right past, and thought it quite a laugh.
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Better Days
It’s damp. So damp our windows cry every morning. Three of us, arms and legs intertwined . An octopus of flesh, seeping yellow on a matress that once...
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Sleepless
My toes curl As your fingers against My back, make Tracks like braces, metal Teeth, smile as though Caught in a trap. A fox screams, that Blood...
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The Moonmaid
A moonmaid lived upon the moon; the loveliest moonmaid by far. She sang a lovely lunar tune and combed her long hair with a star. But then one day an...
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Joy and Sorrow Chapter three (Sandcastles)
Celeste felt the hair on the back of her neck prickle, when she heard Karen's shrieky voice fill the beach air. Her sister - in - law had one of...
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Joy and Sorrow Chapter 2 (The Heat is on)
Celeste shifted her weight uncomfortably. She was sitting in a stuffy, college auditorium, half heartedly watching her husband's debate for governor...
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Joy and Sorrow St. Patrick's Day
Celeste Richards,and her husband, Senator Joel Harrington, were attending a wedding that the New Orleans Picayune hailed as "the event of the year."...
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Prisoner
Sallow skin ravaged by hunger gripped by callous sinful hands, raven approaches with dismal reminder of this desolate waste, escape blew me across...
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Oh, Leader, Where Art Thou?
The hawking of rotted cabbage for president sours my innards! be there a mind among you who frolic in green fields of fresh produce? Nay, you say?...
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University Challenge
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SIGN LANGUAGE
when one is born in silence with no language to enhance they pantomime in splendid rhyme their fingers in a dance . when people do the hula it is...
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Mr Morpheus 5 - Mr Morpheus and The Nightmayor
Mr Morpheus looked down from the top of the Sears tower at the panic ensuing far below, people in large screaming crowds running from a giant,...
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The desert
See then, the hard Misshapen land, worn Away to sand, It is Dead and rots, it Shrinks and shrivels. Pick, pick, pick away, a vulture Feeds its...
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Explaining God
Explaining God Genesis unfolding In the beginning Once upon a time Tick-tock Can’t go back Revelation’s final stop. God in a book. That’s where to...
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Watching Kettles
Watching Kettles Time has become a fascination for me; nay an obsession even. As I seem to hurtle through my autumn years it seems to be accelerating...
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Canal
I don’t think I have ever told you properly about that guy we spoke to in Amsterdam. It was the first evening, I think, and we were walking along the...
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Weird Speech in a Parking Lot
Evan sat in his car outside the restaurant where he worked. His shift had ended half an hour earlier, but he couldn’t drive away. He had to wait...
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The Warm Glow Of Autumn (Seasonal Song)
1. The warm glow of Autumn made me feel so nice; sweet scents of the season cinnamon and spice. 2. And bright patchwork patterns; Red, Amber and Gold...
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CC 49: Offer to Disembowel Comedy from Within
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BORN IN A PLANE
twas born on a plane i know that's insane imagine my mother in flight . in clouds, high above when a push came to shove i arrived on that curious...
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