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New notebook
Whenever you’re thinking it’s all gone wrong And you don’t know why you’re doing it anymore Call into your favourite place Chat with the waiters Ask...
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Why America's Medical Status Quo leaves our contagion risk needlessly high
Many millions of Americans currently face choices between paying for medical check-ups, drugs and care, and paying the rent, college tuition, and...
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Hip Replacement Update
Dear diary...my brain's in a whirl with so much to do and focus on. People tell me not to worry so much, but there's so much to organize in two weeks...
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You

Your light licked the corners of my locked rooms (Creative commons image)
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I’m not upgrading
Athletes say that they can run just as fast as they ever did but it’s the recovery factor that gets them. Boxers claim that it’s impossible to...
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Persecution

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Why do so many hate to simply hear his name? Why do so many hate a life that’s kind, and clear of blame?...
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Stage Fright (Held Me Tight )
Stage Fright - A Poem by Paul McCann . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSd0_YwB11w . Fright or flight. its Friday night . Fight , flight , fight ,...
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The Un-posted Letter
Lady Hilda Adams How bitter the smile Hiding behind her veil Waiting for him to write again Her hopes, her aims destroyed So many days have passed...
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Glory after Glory
You weave those who don’t know you might say your paths drift, driven only by your thoughts. But I know they are wrong - there is nothing...
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Melodine
In a long lost kingdom and a long forgotten time there was a girl with a beautiful voice, like harps and nightingales or the way love would sound if...
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Breaking silence
How long, since you spoke to me Each night I come home It is that same gift, awaiting my return Silence, I hear it even now, oh how it screams It...
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The Moon And The Nightingale (Song)
1. The moon and the nightingale they were wed in the far off land of dreams. 2. The moon wore a bridal veil on her head made from mist and silver...
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To George, from next door
Dear George, I am sorry that the music was too loud for your liking. As of right this moment it is being turned down. I would like to apologize for...
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A Poison Letter

It arrived in the post this morning.
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Grimms82
Jaz sits in his usual table in the corner of Maggie Scott’s, with a view of the door, nursing a pint. He’s been reduced to mooching about in his Y-...
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The Brave Little Tailor
The Brave Little Tailor It was a morning, buoyant and bright, And our tailor sat and sewed. A jovial jam-seller came in sight, And the tale’s seeds...
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Global Warning
1. You are colossal fools to guzzle fossil fuels; the planet's heating up you're gannets eating up 2. The gas and coal and oil, and as the whole...
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Temps Perdu

Gains and losses.
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Ten feet small

You know when you pick up the recycling bag and the bottom falls out of it halfway across the kitchen? Well that’s how my life used to feel every day...
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