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The Things We Can't Hold Onto While We're Moving
Slack, drum, safe A slicked down lizard's floating space The trudging sunken hammer face Platoons the warm abyss Cold, red, white From nothing grown...
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" If Tea’s More Important than Soup" [Mr Martínez Part 30]

Above decks... Image source Wiki Commons, taken by photographer named in image: licence CC-SA 2.0.
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Trevor

Trevor I glimpsed Trevor today, looking good, clean bedroll, spotless trackie top and bottoms brand new trainers, jaunty brown bowler over a...
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Anyway
Don't you find it strange that no one is anxious about catching the corona virus except the anxious, it's all in their head you know, most people...
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Moths

This is the night the moths wake up and flutter stunned around the porch light trembling with silence only there is no silence, only a grasping of...
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Twilight's Embrace
Cold. The landscape is a paste of white-wash. Covers shrubs and escape-routes. Moles and other creatures awakened to the fact winter has come. Shiver...
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Flesh in the juices of autumn

Forgive the apples for sweetness when you wait for fire but I come as the wind. We both take to forbidden fruit, quarter our kisses, we share the...
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One In The Heart And Mind
. One In The Heart And Mind By Paul McCann Just one look and I knew that I could depend on you . Just one word that you said confirmed what was in my...
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Run

watch your hair fall out in those unfaced, blank slate sertraline dreams.
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"Lies Always Come Back" [Mister Martínez Part Twenty Nine]

Fizzle...hiss... As you can see from the photo, whilst the Hedy Lamarr isn't nearly as glamourous as its namesake, or indeed 'Rita, it's much nicer than I've made it sound. Image is a screenshot from Balearia.com's website. This is much better than a plug on TripAdvisor and I've told them so.
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Coastline
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I sit on the shores of the coastline, the sand is warm, the water dances with blinding radiance and the people around me are light-hearted . Today...
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Half a World Away
“That’s not it idiot, I meant that you should have told me you found someone sooner.” “It’s only been a few weeks.” “I’m your best friend, you should...
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growing pains
growing pains there’s a pack of surly black dogs snarling and hissing at my heels it scatters when I turn to face it, regathers when I’m feeling down...
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Not Fair
Day after day,we grieve for you, The heartache of that cruel, Confused, painful day, Will never, ever go away. It was sudden and we felt Such a heart...
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Strange Times
The freedom of the birds and the whispy summer clouds are what we dream of now Spring was quietly stolen our liberties curtailed homes were a prison...
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I Want To Watch The Wind Dance
I want to watch the wind dance, Watch it twirl and swirl and whirl around, Watch it pitter patter as it plays on either side of a leaf on a branch as...
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A Story of May

I was born in October, and I always knew my name was chosen as a political statement. My Dad was a member of the International Marxist Group back then. They were big in the seventies.
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The Sausage
I tied a sausage to my leg and for a short time my ex-girlfriend was fooled. But she dumped me flat on my ass when she laerned her leg was being...
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Lamenting the lock-up

Josiah and Archibald consider the possibility of further Covid restrictions, with mixed results.
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The answer to ‘nature deficit disorder’

out into free therapy, and don't deprive children
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