Cherrypicked stories
Sex Butler
Sex Butler Gentlemen, I’ll admit The modern world’s a sordid jip Run by grubby little men who like to gloat Everywhere you turn you’re faced with some gaunt slapper’s gurn
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- 787 reads
Clima - his romance
sandstorms come in from Sahara - edit
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Afternoon
The first thing I've written in quite some time, woven from random thoughts on a rather frustrating afternoon at work and composed in under half an hour. An experiment. Comments are appreciated.
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- 1981 reads
OUR SON - a family challenge
"Do you want to come home from Training School son?" "Yes."
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- 2539 reads
Slim/Fast
I am full of emptiness all form no substance My talent wasted I am number 13 of 100,000 I am 0.9% of the 90 the invisible now visible a magic act in 3 parts the Greek say
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- 1659 reads
Hangover
I want to call everyone I've ever loved And tell them: Our time together Gave me joy so searing That now, when Sunday Is muffled and smells Like sweating bacon The thought of you tweaking
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- 1266 reads
A Poet in Student Halls
Between shapes moving towards the serpent and crystal craving shapes, I'll grow a beard as deep as the river, and stick a poster on my wall. With a tree that can't stop singing
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- 2328 reads
Oh no it isn't!
What's in a name? IPOW, inspired to such nonsense as this.
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The Girl With Norwich In Her Pocket
This is an experimental villanelle, with the repeated words within the lines, in the same order, rather than at the end of each line and rotated.
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- 946 reads
A Passing Day.
Where do you find the time or inspiration to write?
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- 1056 reads
There's someone dead in the toilet
I know it's Emma's party and I don't want to spoil it but I think there is somebody dead in the toilet.
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- 3346 reads
We should call a man
It's not my fault that I'm not able to French Polish the scratched coffee table
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- 1930 reads
Inspiration Point: Soggy Butties.
New Confessions
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- 3497 reads
Give My Daughter Back Her Hair!
Playing the lottery is what people do instead of changing their life, she tells me, buttoning up her pinstriped jacket.
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- 1179 reads
Chapter Four: Captain Storm (EDITED)
“With a poppet?”
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The Shining Stone
“The Shining Stone”
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Dear Man I Saw On The Platform At Colchester
Dear man I saw on the platform at Colchester, You hugged the ugly Polynesian girl Then waited while she got on board the train I confess, my knee-jerk thought was Mail order bride
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- 1495 reads
FAMILIES
I took photos of the Woods, Ate healthily with the Greens, Got a cake from the Bakers, Had egg and chips with the Beans.
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- 1571 reads
River
Two bottles of rioja Are unleashed - 'My teeth were made for this', Grinning like a Greek. This midnight sneak To the river Is a way to jolt me Aloft. Riposting, I show My sad tits
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- 1798 reads
The West
(Driving Through Suburbia) When you drive through a suburb, You see the ghosts of the land: Pines standing free and open, Avenues of young maples, planted after the wars,
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- 849 reads
What want mooring
What want mooring They went home and locked the home gate they went home and did the washing up and at tea time when mum said because I am in a boat having a hard time we have dog for dinner
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The god loss
The god loss Remember the little god who stood up to sleep, strolled across lawns mimicking ducks. They say he beat back books, charged per syllable with
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- 1149 reads
Apples and cheese
Apples and cheese I wouldn’t make much of a ploughman given I don’t like apples or cheese. In bed I’d unshirt him enjoy all the things and then like beer off a dog’s lip
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An Apology for a Class
Poor Inez puts up with a lot...
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Of mice and not men
You might need to know something aboutthe 12 steps.
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- 1178 reads
What It Is... (Scene 2)
Next bit. Any comments gratefully received!
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- 4960 reads
Just Eight Lines
The finger of creation.
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- 994 reads
Some Drones
A waitress encounters a man lost in a story, but who's story is it?
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Fountains
Fountains light the sound of gardens in twinkle plink pink pink make baths for birdsong and fall down drunken steps in a joyous white unfurling
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- 1083 reads
The New Confessions
IPOW - May offend, possibly.
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- 1528 reads
Humiliation
The old woman had her.
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Poetical Science
The twenty-first century – what a wondrous place! Where no one is judged by their creed, sex or race Where technology makes our lives sprightly and gay Isn’t the world looking sciency today?
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- 732 reads
George Aligayah
enunciates every word whenever he is alone, "The Queen is Dead."
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I Love Everything About You
This is the Prologue from my collection of short stories, "Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love", which is available from Amazon and other bookshops. For more info please visit www.richardbardsley.net
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The Whole Truth
...or some of it.
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what isn't happening
I like it when an unrequited love visits me in my dreams I get to hold her and that even get naked with her which is nice but, we never you know actually do it do the do do the sex
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- 2727 reads
What It Is
First scene of a stage play. An average day in a Council Drop In Centre...
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- 4512 reads
The Cuckoo’s Nest
Am I here because of the madness within, or was I infected by this place?
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- 3475 reads
The Ploughman's Apprentice
He dropped the skull and jumped backwards, shuddering at the sight of its grinning jaws and earth-filled eye sockets…
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- 1016 reads
Catching the train
With Christmas and New Year celebrations out of the way she was determined that she had to take this journey.
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- 1988 reads