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On Dehumanization
Dehumanization is a process by which a target group or individual is first portrayed as being sub-human or animalian. At this stage they are not so...
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Like music
The sun is a heart beating light into the coldness of space. And this heart is a small, ugly dog running joyfully through the bright spring air,...
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Everywhere
Threaded through the rain-sown air or the cut of sun through the window. Overheard a hundred times in passed conversations. Written in grass, the...
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Snippets 135b
What are we but broken and flawed souls dumped into a squalid existence without the right to know why? How can we ever make anything good of such a...
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Rock Me In My Cradle
I wanted to show the family featured, but image sizing means I can only post the fulcrum of the family RIP Irene Brown
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Menu
He could not bear the slash of words that reminded him of faults – stole from brothers and sister needed cash for treats and such. He was a smart...
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Angel 54 (new deal)
Angel heard the shuffle of feet coming up the stairs. She could still taste fried food in the air and the dank smell of unwashed kiddie clothing...
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Haunted Hostel
Our school holiday took us to a motel. Surrounded by coutryside, and areas of natural beauty. A trip up to the castle, too many stairs to climb. A...
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Age concern
You set off just before me, after you switched on the birthday lights
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Agent Duck III
Being where Frank learns how to be a duck.
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The Hike
The country roads were wide and winding, A canopy of trees and hegerows fresh with elderflower, Giving off a lovely scent. Then we came to a bluebell...
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That's How The Whole Thing Started
That’s How The Whole Thing Started - by Paul McCann You turn the empty pages and read between the lines of an astronaut lost in space . The Earth is...
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Secret Job Description (Modern Jobs)
Job application, what is this application? What does it mean, is it for real? There aren’t many job titles in this day and age that make much sense...
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friday
It’s Friday evening; it’s Friday fucking evening! Excited chatter slips through the gaps in the music that bleeds from my earphones. London beckons;...
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I'm A Right Hard Needy Poet, Me
Performance poem.
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Room change
Dragging my case around Purgatory
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the look she gave
My feet had barely touched the landing - yet there she is again trailing behind me with those eyes For the fifth time today I stood in front of the...
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The Woman in the Bathroom
"Dad, there's a strange woman pissing in the bathroom." "Is that so?" "I think so. She might be taking a dump, I didn't ask. The point is she didn't...
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22
22 By Paul McCann If I was the only one I would be without you , but when you came into my life I turned 22 . Ooh oh 1 and 1 that is me and you , If...
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Incident at Till 2
I suppose I’m in a sensitive mood Maybe I was always sensitive That’s my problem, or one of them (Breaks out chocolate biscuits I ought to be working...
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