Cherrypicked stories
Poetry Box
1. I receive a call, long-distance, from a woman I've never met. I ask: Who are you ? She refuses to give her name. In a cellar, in a house, in a country far away, she says
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Run, Adam
Adam runs alongside the frozen canal, new year's day - his fiftieth year. It's good to do this he's been told, to run along the canal's artery the ground hard beneath his feet
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The Beautician's Day Off
A flimsy curtain screen all that’s between them and their dignity...
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Dr Crippen's Transcendental Sushi Bar
She walks through the door and feels a surge of hot blood in the pit of her stomach. "Sit here" he says "near the conveyor belt. That way you'll be sure to enjoy the choicest cuts."
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I Remember
I remember a time when the names didn’t hurt me. That hazy untouchable feeling of a strolling concrete block.
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The O2 Kama Sutra, Sponsored by Motorola
A survey of 18-24 year olds revealed that most would rather do without sex than be without there mobile phone.
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The Sixties
Woodstock or the Isle of Wight Doctor No is a Thunderball Shaken not stirred The pussy purred There’s an armed man on the knoll
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Harmonics
How deaf are we to the magnetic aspect of notes, leaning back into the music of another?
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The dumb things people do
I thought what the hell did I just swallow?
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The Alchemist
For those without a poet’s ear This life’s a long and weary haul The news says: LANDSLIDE – THOUSANDS DEAD But all I hear’s... material
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The Incompatibilist
More bar-room philosophers
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We interrupt this Eisteddfod for an important channel 9 announcement...
This is my opening performance piece for the 'Bard of the Fens' competition next week. We have to read 3 pieces from memory (gulp) on the theme of 'Wolves' Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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One Night Stand
She promises herself never again, again.
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"In These Shoes?"
(I.P.) So! You've wound down yer winda. So there is life on Mars!
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Don't Give Up Your Day Job
Don't give up...
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STEPPING OUT poem
...not around any more up the hill in her new nest another hunk in her mixed-up life forgetting three children...
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Uncle Tom (The Re-write)
My Late lamented Uncle Tom, a re-write. Last verse re-written
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Marilyn Monroe Reading James Joyce
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I Met An Indian Yesterday
(dedicated to my fiancee Courtney Silverman) I met an Indian yesterday: he was about my age with wild eyes devoid of rage I met an Indian yesterday: his hair was long, black
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