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Cherry

Contender

The guy is Zoot suited and Chelsea booted. He is drinking a South African red of a bad year that had travelled via Oslo on waves as tall as the barman's tales. He stands on a floor that is bubblegum sticky in a cloud of Marlboro blue smoke and inhales deeply.

weight!

Life's weight is full...

REFRESHING CHANGE?

"What was she doing in your bed?"

Mark.

(This is a true story and a work in progress. Mark is now in Rampton high security hospital 'At her majesty's pleasure.' Surely one of the most chilling phrases in the English language. Mark.

Fetch the Dog

It was a fetch. Of my dog. Fetch the dog. Not funny. If I explained to anyone, they'd say it was the heroin. "It's the heroin! They'd say. Like I was stupid.

Bag of Weasels. Chapter 4.

I got yanked up and scraped over the low wall next to the towpath, spun round and put back on my feet, then looked up into the face of Ralph. "What the fuck do you want? he growled.
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Fridge Mountain

Nine-year old Junior Jones discovers the dump for the first time, and its crowning glory -the heap of discarded fridges etc

DAVID.

Still before battle, The giant slayer, petite No modesty leaf.

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
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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!)
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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.

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