Cherrypicked stories

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Shame, shame & a lousy nickname

Based on a true story. Title poem from the new collection.
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Brown UFOs

Haiku
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Errata: Eighteenth Episode - Gunishment

Gazing out through the mirrored visor I finally saw the world through the eyes of a City Peace trooper. The suit cut off all peripheral vision. It was just like wearing blinkers.
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Ancient Gags in Limerick Form

From me, a bit of fun for a change. Your favourite jokes from school converted into that much maligned form: the limerick.
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Hello Sailor

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The Belt

I must have done something to deserve it, I don’t recall. Slouching from the room I’d muttered and mumbled and my father - drained from a business trip - had heard
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The Hamster Chronicles

1. Too young to know, we watched the little fluff ball slowly curl up and leave us, bit by bit, putting up a hamster fight, something small but
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ASKEW STREET 1940

A personal Dragon.
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on my way to work

This sleeping bundle of marigold in her lap. Is it hers? I mean, she could have rented such a baby for the day. I hear 21 baht is the going rate. Then, you know, maybe
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Cheap Haircut

Sweet Tyrannosaurus! Was there ever a more apt occasion for your chicken foot to land like a piano right outside the salon?
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O S C A R

Be careful if you ever think of buying a Parrot.
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Day 7

After the meet, on the Metropolitan, pencilling a moleskine with metanoia, well-nigh the edges, only words adrift.
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chapter two: some people are on the park

What can you say about a girl who didn’t love Bach, or the Beatles but was mad for you in every positive way you can define the term? What can you do with a girl like that?
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Your Number’s Up!

The rain lashes down on the school children at the bus stop.
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Gate

Again and again I discover that I love you as the joggers hgh past me like coal trains. I am a pin prick on the palm of the Metro and follow the coastline
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Accidents Happen

Accidents happen, what can we do? Accidents happen someday it might be you. Accidents happen for a reason they say, And then yours happened, what a terrible day.
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the consultant - part one

a guy down and out in tokyo, having his head thoroughly done in. no geishas or golden pavillions in his japan. will he ever find his blue butterfly?

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