Cherrypicked stories
The Love Surgery with Alan Shearer
This was a piece I wrote for a university writer's workshop that was on Valentines day of this year. I went for a somewhat Haruki Murakami vibe. It's quite surreal I guess, hope you enjoy!
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Perceptions
Everyone perceives things differently.
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A Pee and a Poop at Midnight
Calvin's Shih Tzu, Teddy, can't hold his water and suffers from irritable bowel syndrome. This weekend, Calvin is dragging the dysfunctional beast to a barbecue at his future in-laws.
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Silver and Exact
Self Deception V. Sylvia Plath
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Just Killing Time
'To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heavens.' (Ecclesiastes 3)
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ode to the blues
red is the color of a fresh-picked rose but blue is the color of Picasso's glow pink is the color of a desert sunset but blue is the color of Apollo I'll bet
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Ten Things I'd Have Done Differently
Everything is as it should be.
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Blueberry Pie
and as I do after every Sunday I light up, smoke up and tell myself to shut up as I patch together a father of sorts, from these blueberry afternoons
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Dear Daughter...
Don't go looking for an answer...
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love is never black and white
umm...?
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Tragic Death Of TV News Reporter
The BBC announced this morning, the death of TV news reporter, Pontificator Speculation in a tragic news reporting-related accident.
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Photograph
Spain 20 Aug 2011 Photo CC2.0. Mario de Biasi?
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Ten Things I'd Change About Me- or , Oh, to be Average (IP)
TEN THINGS I’D CHANGE ABOUT ME There aren’t too many things I’d change about me but I will give it a try:
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Dali's Clock
I fear that I loved you so much I made you up. Wrapped in a towel, I look for evidence of your being here; your empty coffee mug on the table, a pound coin on the kitchen floor...
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Only Fools...And Roses
He lays six, crimson roses, growing wild, at the side of the road...
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Delhi and Dostoyevsky (sequel to Birthday on a Train)
He wondered aloud about how much my underwear had cost but soon took the hint that it wasn’t for sale ...
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Bill and the UFO27
the shit stream
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Quietly sinking
I saw you, your hands quilted in shade. Shaky but clasping a bottle of beer. There was something so defining and desperate, in your touch. All pre-positioned delicance,
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Intervention
You say "I don't remember." but that's all I do. Think back and hold on tight. Hands in prayer or frantic; gripping at your skin, leaving tyre-track handprints which tarnish your prestige.
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Hopscotch On The Beach
Candas, Asturias: 20 Aug 2011.
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Violet Dreams
Every morning, When I wake-up Pressed against Your warm chest— Intertwined with Your leaf-like limbs— I kiss your Freckled cheeks, Softly, So that you may Remain in violet dreams;
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The Art of Art
'Vissi d'Arte'
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God’s List of Ten Things He Would Have Done Differently (IP)
God ponders what could have been.
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Terrence Oblong’s 10 greatest mistakes (IP)
As a clone of Terrence Oblong I often hang my head in shame at the disastrous life my genetic twin has lived.
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The Old House
Going back is seldom a good idea. Time can distort the pictures in our mind...
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The Jazz in the Background
The jazz In the background Enters my Forehead And I Whimsically ponder The Relevancy of Foucault; I miss Mexico City And the Bells From the temple;
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'Back to Black'
It's the little things mean most.
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And the Beat Goes On (IP)
…so the alarm goes and I’d only just got to sleep as I had a shitty night everything going round and round and now I have to get dressed to see the dr I never dress and when I do I can only wear
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Romance Anonimo
Inspired by a piece of music called Romance Anonimo.
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Vicious
I tore that girl apart in the backseat of my brother’s car dope-smoke camouflaged us until icebox eyes met mine and I cried because she wasn’t who I thought she was
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There's No Such Thing as Just an Ordinary Day (IP)
I remember that earth-shattering day like it was yesterday.
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Just Let It Go lyrics
Sitting in a car while I'm standing on the front porch/watching as the headlights disappear into the night/we said that this is what we wanted but it still hurts/like the necessary sting of an amputat
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Robbing Hoods
A reaction to the riots.
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The Kids Are Alright
Alternative opinion and strong language
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America
‘Here’s my piece.’ Charlie dropped a nickel plated, snub nosed, 357 magnum into my hand. ‘Bought it off a little ol lesbian at my Church.’
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A Stone’s autobiography for a human being.
A Stone’s autobiography for a human being. P K Routray
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And So it Goes
I’d rather untie the line and let the boat drift
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Madame Maserati
Madame Maserati takes her usual seat by the river, at the foot of the red corporate canyon. She lights her usual cigarette, sends her usual text to her usual lover, draws a number of times
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Corn
nonsense, but hey God knows whose perfect.
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Frozen moments of a sad and happy life.
The man in the apartment opposite comes home every night and irons shirts. Lots of shirts, and then he holds them up as if admiring them and then chooses one,
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in the absence of a soundtrack
falling backwards down a stairwell with no score to underlie the obvious entertainment for all those watching.
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Communication overload
(twittering, chattering, and information overload)
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A Day in the Life (IP)
A life.
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Cetacea Singing
Like Native Americans...
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Ex chapter 4 - Daniel's mother is a mermaid
The sea could be, was magnificent, it took her breath away with every salt filled swathe and in that moment, for her, she knew it was more of a husband to her than Daniel’s father could ever be.
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Felicity not Frank!
A Father deep in thought!
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Damaged
He was amazed by how the slightest scent or wisp of wind could send his mind years, or decades even, back into the past, when everything was better — whether it really was better or not.
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Melange 2
Mini poem collection
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A Day Like Any Other (IP)
As usual, am woken at 5.00 a.m. by an earthmoving experience...
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A Bumper Weekend For Photography
Notes from the underclass.
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Taking the 5:40 with Kerouac IP
"Got a ukulele/Now I'm not a fraidy/Cat in case I get a bout of blues" Loudon Wainwright III
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A Maggy-Morning (IP)
This IP was too good to miss out on.
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A girl named Ana
Pro-Ana is a name for community websites supporting those with an eating disorder - often referred to by users simply as `Ana'
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Love in a time of riots
Shards of broken glass fell upon your shoulders And into your hoodie Like glistening amethysts Flecked in their reflected hearts With the blood orange glint
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apostasynthesis
smoking medical pot to relieve the sharp pain that shoots from my ankles as I hobble about the house serving T.V. dinners to my imagined alter-ego, watching Pavlov's dogs
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Sunbirds
they're the opposite of snowbirds...
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