Cherrypicked stories

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Sea Men

My hands slip on salt slicked handrail, feeling of touch drawn from my fingers by lead painted cold metal. Grasping tighter I steady myself and continue to squint ahead, the sting of wind driven sea sleet numbing my face, speech an effort.
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019 her skin untouched by time

I was putting out the rubbish when a loud giggle caused me to look up
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Buffalo's Southern Island

Buffalo's Southern Island It is a place that exists more in the minds of those who live there, than anywhere else. You won't ever see the designation for it on any map reference. But, you will hear
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018 her skin painted by time

I was putting out the rubbish when a loud fart caused me to look up
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The Next Day

I return from Nice, staked with fear. All the terrors of every b-movie? My scientist friend must be crazy. Is the train hot? The train is hot. Sunlight is doing a bombing run on the London of my eyes. Flashes,
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Postscript

People are footsteps, silhouettes passing. Few of them stop to ring the bell over the door of the bookshop any more.
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Endless Communication

Editted. Still extremely silly though.
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An Unexpected Destination

...she paused momentarily at the summit of her climb and then, gracefully, dived into the deep blue of the pool below. I had not intended to land here - my GPS had started to play up and I had interrupted my solo cruise ....
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My Father's Boots

MY FATHER'S BOOTS I saw them standing there in the corner, a pair of rubber fireman's boots. The top cuff on each boot was rolled down, revealing the brown canvass lining inside. The rest of the boots were made of shiny black rubber, with twin yellow lines circling the calf area and a yellow stripe where the hard rubber sole met the upper shoe of the boot. They were a little dusty and looked sort of forlorn sitting there in the corner of my mother's basement, at 24 Ramona Ave., in Buffalo, N.Y..
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Magpies

aiming for short and sweet
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For My Villaintine

Every 14th of February, whether or not I myself must plough through drifts of scented envelopes I like to recline, with some fortified wine, and spare a rare thought, unbidden, unsought for the legions of scowl-ridden, lovelorn misanthropes.
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Anywhere But Here

"Find us a place where people don't ask fool questions¦where the morning air comes through an open window¦tangled in bird song¦where we can feel alive again, Jake. Like I said before anywhere but here.
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Marks in the morning

The ceiling holds me in a dry awake. I love theologising sleep, the blue tack mark non interuption where no phone rings and no one speaks. Snug in my mountain sleeping bag I hold the torch up,
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Plot

The boy next door is plotting to take over the street, he holds his mug like a mother and chats to me about ousting Blair computer screen savers and charity clothing appeals. He lays down a line of credit cards,
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The Acrobat

Falling out of love She does well
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Shepherd

Poem has been temporarily removed and will be re-posted in October 06
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The Natural Consequence

Concrete poetry is never a particularly pleasant thing to find in front of you, and when it's being written by a young man who is clearly convinced that he has discovered the meaning of life and/or love, it's doubly bad...
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Drink Me

She loves men who make her feel tiny

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