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Hillsborough
Be damned your Maxwell and Murdochs Poodle politicians and Tory scum On a private-public leash Hauled o’er the Lepping Lane The smashed road of David...
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Sean Happens.
‘Yer little friends are no so little noo,’ said Auntie Evie. She was skinny, dark haired and exhausted looking, but not as exhausted look as my mum...
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The Little Lady
I think I deserved a little whisky and water to help me through the interviews. We’d agency doing the cleaning, but I’d told my wife it would be...
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Windfall.
We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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Missed You.
My junkie girlfriend sold her body to feed her habit. ‘I’m no doing any harm,’ she said. ‘I sold myself tae you. Look how that fucking worked oot?’ I...
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I used to get hot flushes
Posted on Thu, 28 Mar 2024
I used to get hot flushes when I tried to talk to any beautiful girls I'd been at school with. I used the 15 pints and I was ready to roar, rather than the Erazofuge. As I got older I tried cutting down to a reasonable 12 pints. But I had to up...
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tragic, like you I don't have
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
tragic, like you I don't have an answer. Poverty, not morals is the key. We use the latter as a scapegoat, a standared practice by, for example, Jenhovah Witnesses to get a foot in the door, is to say how much worse the world is getting. They've...
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Yes, she really was saintly
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
Yes, she really was saintly and human too.
Read full commentPosted in Remembering Corrie ten Boom
the moron's moron is German,
Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024
the moron's moron is German, obviously. His mother was a wee Free. Obviously too free to have a narcisstic psychopath rapist embezzeler (I might have missed a few, add your own) for a son. We don't count population that way. We include midges,...
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I suppose we all end up with
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I suppose we all end up with a woman (or man) we've only know a short while. I guess we'll fall back on they were a different generation. We're a different generation too. Perhaps if we write it down that'll help?
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I shaved my dad before he
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I shaved my dad before he died. Lived with him and worked with him. Never knew him. The strange thing is my sisters say I'm the dead spit of him. hmmmm.
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an epidemic of homelessness.
Posted on Tue, 19 Dec 2023
an epidemic of homelessness. normalised.
Read full commentPosted in 6:26am Train
The next BBC Open Call
Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023
The next BBC Open Call submission window will be open between 12 noon on Tuesday 7th November 2023 and 12 noon on Tuesday 5th December 2023.
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ah words sometimes fall short
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023
ah words sometimes fall short, but you have risen to the challenge of raising the dead to something like remembrance.
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I hope we're swinging back
Posted on Sat, 29 Jul 2023
I hope we're swinging back into the light. Maybe not yet, Maybe not ever. But the hope sings in your poem.
Read full commentPosted in "Murky Waters"
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