Cherrypicked stories
On Display at Applebee's Fish
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Argentina v Ivory Coast from Buenos Aires 10 June 2006
The second missive from the World Cup in South America....
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- 1220 reads
Borough Market
This Poem has Temporarily Removed and will be reposted August 06
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- 1334 reads
New Things
I have already been perfect once, this morning: my horse's nose, my gibbon's corrugated brow, the splendid chain-mail of my reptilian neck. (A poem written for Pascale Petit's workshop on the Guardian website.)
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- 1019 reads
A Three Pipe Problem
In response to Jack-Cade's "Jeremy Brett"
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The Replacement Mania
Cover from "Horse Crazy" by Gary Indiana.
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Balloons
that there is something atavistic about balloon flights; the hanging and the hope.
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Hilarious Nigerian Scammer Story
Hilarious Nigerian Scammer Story (To find out what it's all about: Visit www.bookscape.co.uk and read the absurd section) My name is Andrew. I work in a bank in North London. And you simply wouldn't believe the number of times people ask me to give them money. Not just small amounts of money either. I'm talking about entire mortgage repayments, or refinancing of companies. I've been asked on occasions if I could allow strangers access to our accounts department's records, when the building has been closed for the weekend! I understand that at least some of those enquirers have since been questioned by our local police force. But you just wouldn't believe the things that people ask you when they find out that you run a bank.
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Ecuador v Poland from Quito 9 June 2006
The first missive of the South American tour - I'm following the World Cup around south America, watching the games from the country involved.
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- 2490 reads
Brahma Tea Museum (Draught Free)
tea poem original
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Wire-crossed Lovers
She always treated being middle class like it was an affliction, a woman in terminal decay, suffocated by coventions and what not, He was a faceless beaurocrat, sitting at his desk, forever clicking the mouse,
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things can only get better
Performance piece. First draft. Unsure about the title... and pretty much everything else. god is dead as dungarees and dummies we've seen those kids in africa with weird distended tummies and the flood reports that end with orphans screaming for their mummies
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- 1074 reads
Tell the lens, this is science
edit edit, this needs.
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Sorry I make you lush
I am lush, this morning, someone must have had a dream with loofers hanging from trees and a painting of me and a hologram of me and a woodcock with my face. The heel of my foot is pistachio-green;
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- 2187 reads
Crumbs
...I remember the square of our bed,
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The Pale Horse
Today the mallet struck, Gavel-to-gavel, dust to dust.
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Wax
he shoulders between soak-macked commuters and steam snarling from grilles.
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Extract From Chapter One
From the same story as Prologue. (Apologies for the lack of paragraph indents but I can't get my head round the submission formatting!)
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- 662 reads
This pale picture that was our house
Rain-washed, paint-brushed so many times crimson ivy bloom through the creases in autumn. Tough winds of winter storms lashing its pebble-dashed spiderweb-embroidered face but then again copper-seared lustre
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- 4265 reads