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Chapter 4 'Hey, you made me jump.' I said leaning up to kiss Rob, 'Oops, sorry, only wanted to see my girl.' he said, smiling, 'So, where you off to, I thought you ate with the others?'

We drank rum and coke every evening the summer you made the tandem in our back garden.

I was sacked when I dropped a plate of fish, a trout's eyeballs were lost in an old lady's hair.

Picnics in the park are only a temporary solution. There are I am sure permanent ones. Samar came to see me in hospital the day before I was discharged and told me that in her opinion pretty much everyone goes to heaven, which echoes my view after studying St Iranaeus.

Chapter 3 'what are you doing here' I asked the figure, 'I just wondered if you could come out for a walk, I wanted to talk to you,' they replied, as soon as they did I knew who it was, I told them I would be down in a minute, threw some old clothes on and carefully stepped down the stairs. I opened the front door, and there stood the 6 foot figure,

Children are born into life all anew So full of innocence and wonderment too They are born tiny, so very small Curious when learning they have a ball They do not know what is right from wrong So unsure of what is going on

A poem inspired by a song by 90's rock band Everclear

Surely a face laden with make up... Isn't really an ideal

a bough gently leans across the calm, still lake. its reflection pulls to the sky and softly kisses the brow of each cloud, leaving a slight indentation from which rain will now fall. extend the branches