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(This is a revision of the first post [Still not my satisfied complete]) This is an excerpt of a story in my works. Please give your harshest/...

Rituals of The Lenten Season

In an Irish-Catholic neighborhood like South Buffalo the Friday night fish fry, served during Lent, is a ritual as unbending and as regular as Sunday...

Orbiting (a tonal drawing written in poetic form)

then is when and when is then and now is always ever being Orbiting (Scared!!! addicting in the serpentining jaws of just begging to be seen) we're...

Finally, Freedom

Stuart was desperate to get there, desperate to get anywhere in fact. He had spent the last six years in a maximum security prison in the town of...

GAR2 RGI1 AEP2 Y922

Monday had started out like just a normal day. I was at work and had been very busy, so it was a nice shift. After I finished work, I went straight...
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Parables of Clippety (9) - The Big Match

They linked arms and walked through the turnstiles. The crowd was already singing, the din of thousands of voices bouncing around inside the stadium...
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Hope

Hope is you struggling through another day with faith anchored in your soul scorching my fears into smitherens Set alight by each undiminisible coal...

When I was a log

When I was a log When I was a log I used to lay on the ground and folk would trip over me. The leaves would nestle around me in the woodland floor...

When I was a car

When I was a car, children sat in on my seats Laughed, cried, dropped conkers and sweet wrappers Lost scarves Small ones threw up over me on long...
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Firepower

speed write
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February Song (after Auden)

Now the bombs are falling fast...
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On visiting the Van Gogh exhibition, Salford, February 2022

Advertised as a sensory experience but failed to show his mind, his desperate letters to his brother Theo, self-mutilation and suicide?? His ginger...
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Parables of Clippety (8) - The Flying Car

‘Oh and how I want to get my hands on him,’ Clare said, holding her fingers out, grabbing onto thin air, ‘I’m so excited now, Marni. Does my hair...
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School Certificate

This is a flash about one day in lockdown, thinking about the past.
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‘Twinkle, twinkle … what?’@102

At 102 she can’t hear well and is confused and forgetful, but likes it when her grandson plays hymns and songs on his violin that she knew in younger days … and for his young daughter he plays, ‘Twinkle, twinkle little star … …
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Week so Weak (blues)

I tried so hard on Sunday Attended the Church of the lost I doubled up on my prayers And counted up the cost Of another wasted week Monday came with...

Teashop Times

It was another windy day today and people outside the teashop were bending almost double in their attempts to cross the road. Railings were used like...
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But I Am Not Writing Today

Well I'm not. Image is in the Public Domain.
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Stray Cat Strut

Dredged up from some zeroes and ones that used to be in a desktop computer. I wrote this an hour after meeting the guy in the story. He did play at the venta, later in the year. His rockabilly band went down a storm. [Image is PD and shows The Blue Caps and Sweet Gene, who I very much doubt ever visited Andalucia].
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