Letters
By Parson Thru
Just that.
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Dear Santa
Dear Santa, in the event that you exist, please could I have:
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A moth to the flame
What made you want to know me? What secret had you told your friend that brought us into contact with a shove into my consciousness? What made me ask your name?
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An apology
Please accept this heartfelt apology.
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Baksheesh
Restoring trust. Admit that you can't be trusted.
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Berlin thoughts
Berlin 3 Dec 2012. Meeting friends in great cities is a wonderful thing
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Breakfast TV
Last week, as I sat eating my breakfast, a television overhead was playing the news in English.
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Britannia
Long to reign over us.
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Checkout the medals
God's honest truth
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Comfort to a radical
Take comfort where you can find it.
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Food
Experimentation. A few words here, a few there
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Look out the window Danny
oh, baby!
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Letter #3
Hey Danny! I've been reading this book and it's got me thinking. Things like: how small is infinity? how vast is small?
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We generate the wave
(for them to surf)
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The pessimistic turn
Was it better once, or did I imagine it?
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Obliged, mister
'scuse me sir. 'r the clay pigeons flyin this away? No fella. That there's the spectator stand right there. You need to turn about afore y fire that thing. Obliged, mister.
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No hay una única realidad
There is no single reality
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Why Quality and Pride are Absent - a Rant
Tired now, so this may not hang too well.
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The mathematical proof
Writing is one of those activities that provides mathematical proof of the law of perpetual imbalance, where the amount of energy inputted seldom, if ever, reveals itself as an equal output, is not st
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Ode to nowhere
The ode to nowhere
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Time for a change
Letters coming Danny. The bored mind at play.
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Nocturnal rant
Don't feel you have to read this. It will soon settle in the mud. Goodbye, words.
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Somewhere in between
I'm looking out into the night at shadows standing in the street dressed with trembling diamonds Sodium droplets falling silently on anthracite I...
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Coffee and cigarettes
“Do you want to know my best kept secret?” Kerry snapped the lid of his lighter shut and drew deeply through his teeth. The girl sitting across the...
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Berlin 2
Edit Edit Edit Edit I like these people, but I'm struggling to do them justice.
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Back with Jack
I’ve been back with my old buddy Jack for two or three days now. We parted company for a while so I could hang with Burroughs and HST. I’m very...
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The need
With a pinch of monosodium glutamate. Laugh along if you know the words...
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I don't know anything about poetry
Nothing at all
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See ya
And so, my friend, we did it.
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Bergamo days
Mate, Two weeks ago I stood on the old town walls and looked at the airport on the edge of the city. And I knew that in a few days time I'd have to...
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Bloody Madrid
Bloody Madrid! Just had a flashback to the airport and that nervous feeling, high with elation, dragging my case into a strange city late at night...
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What I wish
I wish that I could fill a pail with all the love and happiness the world has ever seen and pour it in your heart every single day until it...
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Hall of Mirrors
“Roll-up! Roll-up! See yourself as you’ve never done before! Enter the hall of the grotesque! Roll-up!”
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The dawning
Hey! Bridge added!! :-) Take it to the bridge, man. Take it to the bridge!
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Event
We stood beside the harbour. The light was low and phosphorescent.
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Critic of Pure Reason
Critic of pure reason I realised at some point that I have a prejudice Or maybe an aversion to those who seem to have no soul Just calm control Cold...
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Eyes closed
For she who will always come and go Mmmm. A bit more lyric-like maybe. American teen rock stylee?
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Three little words
A dialogue. Language warning.
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Now see here Mr. Harley-D
Now see here, Mr. Harley-D About your iron from Milwaukee I just went out to ride it, see? And found a flattened battery I’d fixed to ride it, in my...
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My dear friend
My dear friend, We live so far apart these days, though it wasn’t always so. For a short time, we were tied alongside one of life's safe harbours...
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Just another Joe
I couldn't work out their accents. Something eastern with a hint of North American. I shoved my hands deep into my pockets and closed my eyes the...
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Thoughts from a bolt-hole
Lays guitar on bed
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It would be nice
Jacinto Benavente thoughts
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Statuary
Wiping bird-muck from my hair
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Benavente thoughts 2
What a strange world this has become where comedy and tragedy occupy the same stage oblivious to one another What a strange god we've discovered that...
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The Brits are looking for someone to blame
The Brits are looking for someone to blame. The first place to look is usually France or Germany, but "Europe" will do – any foreigner, for that...
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Counterpoint
I’ve been taking some time to think about the counterpoint to all I’ve been thinking and writing about regarding the surge of nationalism and the...
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Polishing the magic lamp
Let’s face it, pretty much all of human life is ridiculously complicated, and often the only way to make sense of it is through an emotional response...
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The bigger picture
Can you imagine losing almost a whole generation of men? Can you imagine the destruction of cities and their inhabitants? Of everything you knew? And...
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The irony! The irony!
There are some wonderful ironies in this whole Brexit thing. One of the most interesting is hearing Brits talking about their country being run by...
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Changing the rules
Anyone mind if I propose a new rule? It's ok to patronise when the evidence warrants it. The persistent thought that the nation has been brought to a...
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Are we being had?
Thank you, phone, for reminding me what I was going to do next. Post something about mobile phone Wi-Fi. Ok, so the mobile phone manufacturers...
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A nobody walking the night
Night-time encounter
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You, me and Woody Guthrie
Thoughts on three lives.
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Document 1
They watched the city burn from a grassy viewpoint on the edge of the Downs.
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Come into the warmth
Ditto
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I thought I knew my mind
Keep the flame lit
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Sunday
I gather the long hairs from around the bath with the tips of my fingers. The aftermath of shower prayers hangs between the misted screen and wet...
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Thank you DDF
Better late than never
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Priced out
Farewell to the people's palaces
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Worlds apart
Idle thoughts on where we find ourselves
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Freedom in absentia
Inspiration point
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The human world
View from here right now
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