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Hope's Eve
Dirty old river must you keep rolling beneath a setting sun for the boy who waits. Mod suited, Chelsea booted outside the Friday night hum of trains...
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Waiting Down The Track
Waiting Down The Track By Paul McCann I had a vision of a strange place that I know so well someone close to me was there and it was easy to tell she...
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Love Will Be The Guiding Light .
Love Will Be The Guiding Light . By Paul McCann Love is a road that leads up back to the place where we belong Don’t turn your back along the way ,...
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You Were Supposed To Be My Friend
I sold my motorcycle for nine hundred bucks and it disappeared because you stole it. You expected me to believe that you found nine hundred dollars...
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The D's in French
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The Spook Dog (first bit)
I've been working on a crime piece for a while, but since I know very little about police procedures this is more of a crime writing exercise. A second bit will follow in a day or so.
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Scotland
Open expanses that stretch out, Reaching across time, Any sense of now, about To diminish, Perceptions are mine. Deception brings frustration...
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Wind and squelch and far views
4/1/23 Blasting wind on the Shropshire hills squelching down beside the narrow wooded Lydehole Dingle looking northwards over Cove Dale to Wenlock...
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Monolithic (Ch 4)
Hairspray, cheap beer, and weed fills a packed theater for the hair metal band Aj Revoir Lips.
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When Lily Was Here
A young boy digging in a graveyard. The nineteenth century is about to dawn.
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The New Maths Project
I wonder what really bad news this is distracting us from? Now with added audio! Image made by author from PD elements, at Canva.com
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That’s All I Can Do For You
That’s All I Can Do For You By Paul McCann I haven’t changed , I’m still the same , the Father you knew , the one you out grew . I’ll always be here...
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Mexico 1970
There were rumours of decimalisation. A new decade in modernism at Manor House Junior school. It was the summer of 1970, of Esso World Cup coins...
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Golden Hair
Some people like to think they have golden hair. But those people got nothing on me. And honestly, I have no idea how it came about, why an ordinary...
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Resolution
Audio version at: https://soundcloud.com/user-62051685/resolution-mp3 (re-recorded inadvertently with a clock ticking in the background. Decided to...
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Alien Murmuration - A Masking Story - Chapter 11
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The sun is proudly sitting in a clear blue spring sky. All the clouds are burnt away and nothing is getting in the way of the warmth bringing joy to...
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SAINT NICK
There was a lad named Nicholas Who lived up in the north His parents thought him special From the day that he came forth He loved his fellow children...
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Monster Mine
Monster am I, worse than any who are red in tooth and claw. Unworried by bell, book or candle, I will not be banished, exorcised or worried into...
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BLOW ME
i think about you all the time you are the reason to my rhyme precision clocks with double chime you know me . i'll be beside you when you wake you'...
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FATHER TIME
A couple had a baby Born on January first Right at the stroke of midnight Though that hadn't been rehearsed He grew up rather quickly And in his...
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