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The Breach
The Breach one’s threads become unwound, unglued, off paced, unleveled ground and searching viewed through vision's skew in silence cause synapses...
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Last Morning
You did not know the beginning. Sleep drunk you staggered. I tugged at your crumpled pyjamas, shoved you to come and look. I dragged you barefoot...
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The Doctor Was Once Called Doctor Who
Even though I loathe the new Doctor Who TV show, I loved the classic Doctor Who. The classic Doctor Who began in November of 1963 and ended in...
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Three Halves to Union Street
It was just before the O’Grades in 1979, and a Holiday Monday, Easter Monday to be precise, a public holiday, a day off school to do nothing, to...
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I Never Said Hullo
I noticed someone I hadn't seen for almost thirty years
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Rhyme & Pun-ishment - a chapter from the novel Crazy Diamonds
Rhyme & Pun-ishment I have a quick shower then make my way to the computer room to sew the lines together. Must. Avoid. Rory. I’m starting to...
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Puebla de Sanabria
Not about much. Image source wiki-commons/ licence CC-BY SA 3.0/Photographer: Vegafotoswiki
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Golden Memories: Cars
Perhaps too much is written about cars, but I'll risk a few reminiscences. In the 1960's I seemed to spend most of my spare time walking down to the...
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Bring Me Sunshine
Some may find the ending unsatisfying. An old lady I once knew used to say "the bastards would tax sunshine if they could". I'm now in complete agreement. Image Source wiki commons licence CC-SA4-Int Photographer Charles R. Benedict
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Codes
From Dewsbury Moor to New Orleans, Frosty Jack, Romanian Bourbon. Filleted skunk swooned upon a breeze, all mustard lit in white urban. We rage hard...
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Caged Bird
I feel like a caged bird, trapped, looking through bars, wishing to be free. I stand on my perch observing other birds constructing nests, excited...
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The Fire
I have long lost any hunger And fell into a deep slumber Staring into the final ember Of the faint dance of fire I have long lost any feeling And...
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Three Strikes
Penelope nervously rocked backwards and forwards in her chair as she sat in wait of Dr Megan O’Neill. Penelope was dreading the meeting as she knew...
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Feelin the Squeeze
He pulled the money from the machine and counted it, hoping that if he willed it to be so, there would be another twenty in there. It could happen. A...
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NOT THIS TOWN
These are lyrics for a song in the Song A Week 2021 group.
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Tok is the new Mate
“I don't give a fuck about your faults or mishappens nigga. We from the Bronx, New York, shit happens” I’m still bound by that doctor shit right? I...
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The Tidal Bore
The Tidal Bore begins a miracle from the Atlantic pulsing messages along an ancient route water streaming at a lazy clip- outcroppings of choppy...
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Enter Ophelia Playing a Gibson Les Paul With Her Hair Down (and Recently Coloured)
With first night approaching, Ophelia is tired of embroidery and singing fairy songs on the lute.
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Rattlesnakes
Yes, I've been listening to Lloyd Cole - and reading the news story about Sarah Everard. Nothing changes. Image is from creativeuncut.com - no known copyright issues. https://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-23/ha-rattlesnake-and-silverballer...
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Pride
I was a late bloomer; I only came out at thirty-two. I was ready to come out at eighteen, but my younger brother pipped me to the post, leaving me...
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