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Malcolm-Jamal Warner

He was 54 years old but that was still too young to go. He starred as Theodore Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show'. He was asphyxiated and he drowned. It's...
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Homage

Homage … a warm velvet morning, over silver spun sand, the seashore in sight… The lighthouse blinks a warm welcome and the foghorn booms out a salute...

Eloquence

Perusing the culture section In the public library Boy is gonna get wise It's a big world out there and he wants to open his eyes He read about...

Purchase Requisition

The cost of democracy is going through the roof It's getting harder to combine A politiciian amd the truth There's a catwalk wit a queue Full of...
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Butterfly in a Storm

The wind stripped the petals of dandelions The rain poured from a burst cloud The branches on trees were wrestling each other Leaves were flying to...
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When I searched for you

When I searched for you If I used the forbidden eye to bring back the old wooden bridge over the slow streaming brook, the gnarled carvings of names...
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Night In An Asylum

Night In An Asylum By Paul McCann As a young single man with no wife or children Bobby was working hard running a petrol station . He worked seven...
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Put Out Fewer Flags

All too obvious, no doubt, but here it is anyway.
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harmers 2

She dabbed the scab at her wrist shaped like a keyhole. Picking at it. Although she knew she shouldn’t. Dr Malik was on the phone. Always on the...
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wonkness test

Mussolini, Mein Kampf and our British Empire’s ideology Our struggle, not only on land and sea Our struggle to define ‘we’ Was never wonk work...
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The Turd Age of Humankind

Oh my word! The unrelenting turd. Any watching god, would give us the bird. Positive proof of a glorified herd. Buried alive in our own foul curd. A...
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Worst Case Scenario - Being Peter To Save Paul (Part One)

“Thing is mate, you do your day's work and get $80-100 dollars easy - that covers yeh sack and grub, the rest goes on yeh piss, know what I mean? ”...

The Tree That Walks

The Tree That Walks by Paul McCann In another world we cannot see that lives within our own there is a place where the energy of innocence dwells...

Be Prepared!

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Though it isn’t the norm, prepare for the storm … (Jesus gave a pertinent allegory/parable/metaphor)
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The Fox and the Elm Tree

For Julia and Robert. And for Coral and Sarah.
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The Cart Shed

In Sissinghurst, where gardens dream, Cranbrook’s lanes and gentle stream, There rests a place both quaint and rare, A gatehouse old with country air...
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Holidays in Time 1

Some very strange things had been going on outside my neighbour's house. All sorts of unfamliar vehicles were pulling up in his designated parking...
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Merman

Fishhooks in your pocket jangle as you wade away to the fog-pressed pier. You use a knife to descale fish, split bone. The kettle screams, I flinch—...

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