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From Queen Anne Ave
Greetings from Queen Anne Ave. I'm a father of 3 and a disabled citizen who got 'into politics' because though I had good private insurance, I wasn't...
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My Cat (deceased)
My cat (deceased) visited me Last night in my dream Had something to tell me, Something to say From her floating platform Far away But still she has...
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glitter
The man from Council. A wee nyaff, clipboard, pen and baldy heid. He’d come to see the wall in the back bedroom and there was no arguing with him. ‘...
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On the Offing
here we stand, here we stand. It is from this - now near - mortal passing place; Where the truth of time and the depth of space, Are revealed in a...
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sequential creation
… I, I. I am. I am here, I am here, again. I am here again, for your love… Rising now sowing, in the birth of your love once more; And in the rising...
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Charmed
The sickened sight of death befalls, Catching each alarmed, Yet in the turmoil of excess, We all are grotesquely charmed.
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Should cycling be banned in parks & the countryside?
It was reported last year in my local newspaper that a cyclist had been prosecuted for cycling at 41 miles an hour in Richmond Park (the speed limit...
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Don't make assumptions
Father and offspring on a northern line tube. Father, Italian we think; children, both outwardly consumed in books. Struck by the artifice of it. Not...
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Why science couldn’t exist without instinct
Some people think that the rational part of the human brain is more important than the instinctive, that the conscious (ie, reasoning) mind matters...
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Proud Moments
Dear Diary...looking back now I don't know how I did all those classes, plus all the preparing for a session everyday. After my son went to school, I...
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The Bum
An indistinguishable pile of scraps and dirtied linen lies on the innermost side of the pavement. The occasional groan or movement. Passers-by walk...
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The Net Caster (Part Eighteen)
Not all blight survivors survive intact. 'You kept me drugged for a week?'
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2nd Letter to the B.B.C.
Greetings special allies of America, I'd like to expand slightly on my earlier comments... assuming that, as these are soaring but rocky times in...
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Not Quite Fern Hill (Poetry Monthly)
Still...my favourite place to be...Narnia's any place you want it to be, and this is mine.
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a letter to the B.B.C. regarding the American Elections
Dear British Broadcasting Corporation, Although I'm a long-time reader and admirer of your news source, the first thing is probably why you're the...
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A View of the Bridge
It came to be that a demise is where I start, Tear up the planks! Fogging the glasses of any coroner who dared get too close, I screamed, "Here! here...
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Stumpy Toddy (Wren)
phenomenal the sound … huddle in numbers to protect from killing cold, by cuddle
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Heaven's Reward (Islamic State Comes To Heaven): Ch.4: Islamic State Goes To Hell (At Last): Part 1
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In the end God realised these Islamic State fighters did not deserve to come into heaven, and should be sent to the alternative place where they thought only infidels deserved to go. They found themselves amongst rapists, murderers and criminals of all sorts.
That Hamlet Girl
A psychiatrist and a girl named Hamlet.
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