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Antecedents
I was born on the Fourth of March, a time of year in Buffalo, N.Y. when Winter still locks the area in its icy grip. Spring always seemed a long time...
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I do not like ice
I do not like ice. It's not very nice; it's not very nice at all. I slip and I slide when it's icy outside and, upon my backside, I fall. Oh, I know...
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"Goblin Gold"
(or 'Schistostega pennata' ) A disused rabbit hole – what will it hold? about a foot inside, maybe some – goblin gold! In semi-darkness, shines a...
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∫i First moves
The perfect game in Chess would be that of the best first move answered by the best move, replied again by best and then the best once more. The age...
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Star from afar (Song)
1. Star from afar through the night, you come travelling just like a javelin thrown through space. 2. Star from afar your whole journey is humbling;...
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Snow.
Snow. * Snow, how I hate IT! * Snow, great If I’m inside and at home I don’t mind IT! * Snow, I like it on the first day, looking SO Pure I could...
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Cardonald Frost
Two am nothing stirs, scampering fox dreams huddled warm underground
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Lenin on Loons
Three times I blink. I’m in my old high school, sitting on a cream couch in the Assembly Hall that bisects block B and block C. Somebody blares Marc...
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Firstnet
Even though he was on time, he still hurried as though he was late, worried that for once, his train might leave early. He always seemed to be...
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All Through The Long, Cold Winter (Seasonal Folk Song)
1. All through the long, cold winter, the little robin strives; all through the long, cold winter somehow his song survives. Although the weathers...
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Scorned Invites
He invited his ‘friends’ to the party, and then prepared it all. When everything was ready, he sent the usual call – but they didn’t feel like going...
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The Naughty Little Girl
A little girl called Lucy Lee once hid behind her Christmas tree to wait and see if Santa would appear. But down the chimney, came instead a beast...
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Working the plough or wielding the sword
Working the plough or wielding the sword Politics, in our country, has become a blood sport, a series of “Tong wars," perpetrated with a “for us and...
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King Wenceslas, Look Out!! - Part Two
In Part One , the Page tried to get the King to do a charitable act for a peasant gathering winter fuel but the King was more interested in his crossword.
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Christmas Tin Of Beans
1. There is not much cheer at this time of year when you live within our means. 2. But we still give thanks to the food bank for this Christmas tin...
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Black babies.
‘You’re a fibber, Alice O’Connor,’ Clarence said, holding her skipping ropes tightly. We stood facing each other in the backcourt, tenement windows...
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Perceived Misconception
Hard to recall exactly those slithering ghosts snaking silently, whilst trying to process each new dawning of a younger me... especially that...
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Ghosting
Ghosting I got to do this job for twenty years before they started introducing ghosts. They were nothing more than civilians with high scores on...
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Adventure
Bob mindful of the extreme exploits of wild swimmer Lewis Pugh, his three hairs like antennae stalked the frozen meat product counters with added zest
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Twigs and Toads
Memories of a 6 year old Psychiatric Outpatient
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