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strides
Is it fun being impossibly young? Am I too old to care What you wear? What I wear Without a care? T-shirts, chains, all a dazzle. Soulboys’ greasy...
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Addiction

Haiku for the IP weekly. (Talking about haikus with my daughter this week)
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YOU COULD MAKE MY SUNSHINE
1 .NEVER BEFORE ,WELL MAYBE ONCE OR TWICE HAVE, I FELT THIS WAY YOU COULD MAKE IT RIGHT,WHEN EVER I SEE YOU YOU TURN MY HEART AROUND, AN THEN YOUR...
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Early morning on ward 8B

Dedicated to a lost loved one.
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Remember, Remember
1. I still remember the 5th of November when I was a child, long ago; its flames are embers but when I remember those 5th of Novembers still glow. 2...
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Anyone got a match? (Poor Guy)
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Mr. Fawkes took the rap I'm afraid When he was pinned at the point of a blade He was caught in the act But the odds they were stacked When his...
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Love Is Worth It
Love Is Worth It by Paul McCann If you keep on doing what you do I hope you make it through but if you ever loose your way and you can't face another...
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Momentary Madness
Momentary Madness By Paul McCann . Just exploded in a fury , without a judge or jury unloaded the stress and all the badness , momentary madness ...
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MAYBE ONE DAY WE'LL BE ONE
Early in the morning rain i've been thinking about this game, a game waiting to be played dreams waiting to be weighed ,dreams never last to long...
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Embassy Regal
From the age of seven I nagged my mother To stop smoking I used to hear her cough at night And in the morning…choking She was a war child A lover of...
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November Arboretum

… murky and dark, a splash of blood-red, a pattern of peach … … yellow stars outspread on a background screen of conifers’ drab
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Paper Plane
I remember you from school You were the one who caught my paper plane I wanted to leap on to your smile And proclaim my love If only I knew what that...
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Romeo and Juliet Live on a Council Estate in Peckham

Romeo and Juliet live on a Council Estate in Peckham – 2791 words A short burst of music from first track on CD. This to be played before Juliet...
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Adashk
Virtual humans and their embryo cargo battle for control of a habitable planet. Caught in the middle are the planets primitive inhabitants.
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Linton (The Weaker Heathcliff)
The Gothic tendency within literature pre-existed the great Romantic movement in the arts and literature, pre-eminently in the shape of the Gothic...
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Never Ours
Although we walk hand in hand, Bound together by this spiritual band, Never have we manifested content, Each accomplishment furthers regret. Never...
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Chapter 1
Miami. May 25 th , 2038 I’ve had the same dream for years. I’m holding a robin that is near death and I watch it as it struggles to breathe. After a...
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the Passion of the Robot
Carrying Atlas' clouds and Cupid's cross: he bleeds out the depth of his loss... green puddles of coolant grapeish globs of genetic gasoline.....
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Elephant Dung

Love turns sour as two people stare at a painting that uses more than paint. (Inspired by Chris Ofili)
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Never Look a gift horse in the mouth
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. The meaning of that phrase came to mind one day when we were standing in line at the Panera Bread Company,...
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