Cherrypicked stories
That toddler in Tesco
You are that toddler in Tesco dragging its feet out the front of the pram,tripping up blind old women,that piece of popcorn that looked like someone I can’t quite figure out who irritating.
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Chicken Soup 11_01_09
This is a soup to herald Winter turning to Spring. White sky, orange sun, deep Winter green of the snowdrop shoots. Hope. Not long now. Not long.
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Please take his seat
He thinks, all accusing, at the profile in the next seat, the luggage rack rattling defensive snake. He thinks, yes sweetheart under your ass is a ring of conceits.
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By me
We pack a bag get on a train and eat the sandwich. The flick book style countryside suits all the kissing. We get off in Oxford and in a café with a balustrade make a list,
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The Ill-Made Knight
apologies to T.H.White
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The Islanders
The islanders we met were digital natives; bronzed and nubile, their ankles garlanded with flash drives fashioned from conch-shells.
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The Square on the Hypotenuse
He stares, blindly, through the window. “Good morning, Mr. Reeves,” say the children ...
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Childhood friends
You say stuffed bear I say not He remembers things You have all forgot He was there when I was born And I'll keep him 'till I die Every night I begin to dream He'll be resting by my side
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Other People's Children
Oh yes, a little Miss Witch rant!
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The leg braces
She did it again. Carly tried to get away, she ran, she cried – no, Mom, no! – but it was useless.
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Blue Is Beautiful
"Life is full of disappointment yes, and I am full of life." - John Gorka, folk songwriter In moments of pathetic insanity, I turn on the U.S. TV
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London 1960
“We ask God to forgive us the sins we will commit in the future”. Every week we ask this, and then we come here next week and ask him to forgive last weeks’. This sinning is complicated.
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Coming of age
Out here where the effort of it reduces me to shaking, I am overall grey.
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The Strip is hip
short term resident struggles to find identity in dust bowl desert and eyes up that lucky 7
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Thirst
Her hometown belongs to a big stream. Like a spiderweb this stream has conquered everything in the city, the center, the suburbs, big streets and small ones, plazas, the shopping mall.
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The Encounter
It's about my encounter with a weird man who asked for donations for his mentally ill sister. I just turned away. Now I wonder what would happen if I gave him some money.
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Futility
A Passing weary thought!
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SF. Pt.9 One of these days.
One of these days, thinks Arthur, I’ll write all this stuff down.
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Godemiché, or I fell on it
A separate wing has been built to house these types, who blush at the door, walk funny, who used to be able to hide what had happened from other patients.