Cherrypicked stories
Free Falling
my 100th poem
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hanging out at the void
I've seen too much drank too much, too many philosophical conversations coffeehouses and decrepit alleys are littered with my open-mic ghosts, motels with the one-night
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- 580 reads
The Kidnapped Bride
Maddie Etheridge's train wreck of a marriage cost forty thousand dollars and only lasted thirteen months!
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- 3403 reads
The Lavender Chair
She outbid me at an auction that morning.
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- 3479 reads
Alors, On Danse
We are sitting at a table on the terrace, blowing smoke into our coffee, and throwing our heads back to laugh.
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Listen With Mother
A life.
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Bad Writing the Alphabet (IP)
A boy careened down Eternal Falls getting huge injuries just kicking loons most nasty onto Parisians quietly rioting since the unconventional Venezuelean went xenophobic yodeling zanily.
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Bad Writing (IP)
Dear sir
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Lunch Time
LUNCH TIME ---------------------------------------------------- One paw and then another stretches out by the arched backed black cat, rising from her sleeping place, no doubt
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- 535 reads
Revelations
It's just your average American post-apocalyptic family.
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- 563 reads
Once Upon a Time
Once upon a time the last legal prejudice developed.
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transitory madness
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
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- 516 reads
Three and the Quarters...
My son rides high upon my shoulders... hacking our way through jungle.
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I Did Not Wake Up
In the middle of the Congested street I found Your bloody corpse-- And a handful Of Spanish poems You had written for me; But, no, I don’t believe Anything Freud says.
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Went Away
I'm sorry I hurt you I'm sorry I made you cry I thought I'd have you forever I guess in my mind I'm sorry I lied I'm sorry I screamed I hate you cuz if I could take it all back and just hold you I'd t
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Spending Time
.50 to blow on hockey cards
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Road-kill Beautiful
Based on the character of Tracey from "The Tracey Fragments" by Maureen Medved.
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She breaks easy
When I was a baby, the nurses warned my mother. My bones formed too small- they were afraid to touch me. I was placed in an incubator; as if a sheet glass, was enough
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- 3679 reads
Futility
Is it ever worth it?
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Of a Saturday
It’s bread-baking day, as it’s been for years...
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- 7016 reads
Master Pilo
The first story I ever wrote. A play on paradox.
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Calling
The somnambulist negotiates a cliff-top stairway carries her invisible apple a delicate heart-throb in her palm the grey weathered stair-stone rubbed smooth by the ancients
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Willian felt the words flow into him. Such beautiful words. But he knew they could spell his death.
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Bill and the UFO25
police call na na na na
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Lets Make Today When Our Children Can Walk Tall!
Been Bullied
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Paper Cuts
“So what is it agin you want me to doe?”
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Paintball
The aftermath of the war was a quiet disgrace, A feint of victory. Laurel wreath pride Hung over the ruined buildings of the city I lived in, Hastily pasted on crushed cracked walls.
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Impossibly Yellow
Dedicated to the memory of Andrea Parker MA (02.08.1968 - 31.12.2007) ‘Celebrate my life – don’t mourn the life that I had not’
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Bad writing prize IP
IP
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Bad Writing Prize (I.P.)
With more brass neck than the Sheffield Colliery Band, Lady Butterworth sat in her ivory towers spreading repugnant rumours like Dairylea triangles left in the bottom of last year’s picnic hamper an
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Deal or No Deal
Performance piece with very strong language
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I am Norse
It seems I am Norse the curve of one dead girls cheek and her eyes looked out of my college yearbook another and anothers red angel hair is mine
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Cleaning
The new flat is getting dirty. I have lived in it. I have friends here. They have lived in it with me. On Wednesdays I clean. It gives me back my pride. I have a system.
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Bad Writing Prize (I.P.)
I.P.
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The Lottery Win
Winning the lottery can be a mixed blessing, as grandpa discovers....
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Down But Not Out
An uplifting tale of addiction
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Hurray, Hurray, I'm Your Silver Lining
If every cloud has a silver lining, then this storm rolling in will make me a millionaire.
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Checkout
“Why would anyone need eight toothbrushes?” Jenny wondered idly as she bleeped them through. “They’re not even on special offer.”
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Painkillers
A brother and sister deal with the problems of caring for their dying father.
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Persephone
isnpired by Greek myths and food.
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- 838 reads
A Town Like Beverley
This – the leaving behind...
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The Fire Flower and the Bee
Bear wants thumbs just like his archenemy, Man, but Heveki, the benevolent God, has something else in mind.
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- 3359 reads
Lady of the Woods
A Gift to us The Silver Birch.
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View from New Jersey
The quick flick of a sparrow’s wing Framed by Frank Sinatra Drive
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One Shirley Temple and Five Pints of Stella
our little lives like hop scotch one day it’s crazy, the next day it’s not
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Ex chapter two
The storm cloud of horror rains on Daniel
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Lady in a Chinese Restaurant
People-watching; my favourite occupation.
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The evil Terrence Oblong
This is Terrence Oblong. Terrence has his arm around a woman, a blonde. I don’t recognise her, she is someone that crossed his life‘s path but never diverted onto mine.
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Peace in Our Time
I remember a clanky, Mobo scooter...
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One Day
an old poem, slightly reversed.
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Juno In Her Birthing House
Roof tiles flayed by a blunt north wind; a standpipe spews drain-water like a Saturday night lush. Upstairs (in her secret temple) Juno sleeps on a silk birthing bed
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Some
Some oh fuck moments are stone silent they don't crack the sound barrier before they meet the sea,
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You are, we are, I am
A pilots pocket catches on the autopilot switch, A surgeon dips for incision and slips. A mountain guide clocks the map upside-down and here is no water, only rock.
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Gardener
He shows you how to smudge the black fly from the bean flowers, points out the ant making off down the stem. He turns up leaves to find a little beetle shaped like a skin cell. Tortoiseshell.
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Let's celebrate
Construct monuments. Make them our faces. Cut us in granite at the moment the penny dropped.
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Life Draw
It's rare, the charcoal finds lines finger smudged or dragged with newspaper we draw with a rubber, creating light. The model tilts her chin, breathes in
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No Fairytale (I.P.)
A mix, she was - somewhere between an angel and a nymph...
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Visiting Grandma
Oh hello dear, It’s you, come in. You’re looking gaunt, So small, too thin. Have a drink, Nice cup of tea Just one sugar? I’ll make it three. Some cake I just baked,
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