Autobiography
The Best of Intentions
A long walk to the mine fills him with unease knowing what awaits, checking in among the line of shuffling men tired from the day before still...
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Cezanne on the Pennine Way
“his fortitude held and hardened because he did what he knew. His forehead like a hurled boule travelling unpainted space behind the apple and behind...
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Leggings: bad nites - cows & maggots
19/07 In the depths of night, when all light is extinguished, except perhaps for the night jar's globes voices come floating towards me. A man and a...
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A Star is Born
There’s a stage at the Theatre Royal, in most every child’s heart;
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BRE York
BRE York Almost rhymes with work Almost, but not quite Something isn't right Which comes to mind every time I see this sign cut into a carriage floor...
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Leggings: bad nites - witches n wizards edited
More uncomfortable nights follow. The noise shrills out insistently. Often appears that there are several devices at work. I associate the noise with...
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Leggings: bad nites - pipes
Dispatches.....
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Psychic Ruins
Psychic Ruins Slaps Punches Hateful Mortal Words All Sliced Through My Psyche Ribbons Of Memories Tangled And Torn Knots Of Rage, Anger Pissed Off...
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N.A.
I knew it was back first thing yesterday. My unwelcome visitor had crept in during the night, absorbing all of its darkness, and presented it to me...
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Closer
Funny, I feel closer to your dead body with a cigarette in my hand
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Leggings: bad nites - bench
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Night falls: the old man and the young boy are back. I can hear the clattering upstairs. The shrill white noise starts up earlier than usual. I'm...
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Once I Was A Poet
*** I must be a poet, I said ... ***
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Bella
Gingerly, Lis opened the door Saw us, and quickly stomped out, My jaw dropped as the stole round her neck had black eyes and a very long snout...
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Leggings: bad nites - present
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Now it's three thirty on a Sunday morning and its far from being well. There has been a hullabaloo, shouting voices, is it someone to do with the...
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"Parisian Chic"
the feigned authenticity of this coffee shop (a chain. a corporation. I forget) rather matches your own feigned authenticity. they're the same in...
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Language Barrier
The thing is- why would I learn this language when they won't understand me anyway? I keep the language barrier to act as my barrier to protect me...
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Borrowed Time
The river seems different when everyone else is working. One spring lunchtime my wife and I found ourselves looking for something to do – our...
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In Bernadette's Garden
*** I spent the night with the moon ***
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White Walls Of Hope
White Walls Of Hope The walls were white sparkling in the bright sun I peered over from my branch into heaven barbecue smells radios blasting armed...
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Walking Thru Blades of Glass
White Walls Of Hope The walls were white sparkling in the bright sun I peered over from my branch into heaven barbecue smells radios blasting armed...
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leggings - bad nites
There was a stillness about the air as I jogged towards the park entrance. The day I'd met Kitty came to mind, almost as much moisture in the air...
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Not everybody will like this
Oh for God's sake, in a perfect world, put me on an airplane at Terminal 5 and tell me I'm never coming back. Is it too late for a Green Card and...
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Life on Mars
Reminds me so much of my first day at school; like being marooned on another planet.
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Zounds!
I was waiting in a patchwork waistcoat with my Martin guitar outside the gates of the V&A wondering if they’d ever show. My brief to provide...
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Poetry and That
Something stirs, something breathes...
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Going Home
When I met my future husband, almost the first question he asked was “Are you prepared to live in England?” I suppose if I had said “No”, that would...
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I lay my heart bare
Of all the forms that the ghost of sorrow can take, guilt is the ugliest one and I have been possessed by the ugliest one. It has made my heart...
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The Portrait
Place: a picnic table outside Lady Nascent's Estate, The Village Those involved: Jean Day, who writes mainly historical and family history books John...
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Leggings - my netbooks is temporary poorly.
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My little netbook is very poorly, makes me feel incredibly sad, leggings is in flux - the movements of ants towards the centre of the known universe...
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Musings -- from a Stroke Victim
It was fourteen years ago the dragon’s teeth bit their way unexpectedly into my system in the form of a debilitating stroke. And in 2014, I continue...
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The Solemn Book of my Life
A solemn book with a transparent cover baring the folio of a solitary life the binding thread-bare smudges of dried glue shackling the tattered...
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Leggings - Henry's evil weebles.
"The evil weebles of the churches are said to be out in force earlier this week, an invitation to talk about her early experiences as L. Abright was...
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Visiting Slimbridge
[birds, ducks, swans … and …!]
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leggings - holes in head
"I've got the worst headache," KItty mumbled at me crossly, as we moved towards the college. "It was as if a whole Sunday school class had moved in...
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Escape
Escape This vessel, this house, this cage- Eating- Sleeping- Shitting- Pain- Again and again and again, Flesh garment, no release, nowhere to run,...
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5/6/14 more of
his look breaks like a wave on the page - books are rocks from which any crack of sound or sight distracts from impact. A rush of talk follows, as he...
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# Tracks
Half of a ride taken after hearing Iain Sinclair talk about a walk following the London Overground . http://www.saqibooks.co.uk/2013/08/westbourne-press-publish-empty-rainco...
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My Life a Seasoned Wok
My life a well-rounded bowl not filled with symbolic fish Norse beacon to the wild side or vitiating mold a person on the dole linked to another's...
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leggings cleanup
At the end of an operation: there is always an element of cleaning up. Sometimes it's an agreed thing between two usually oposing elements. It's 03:...
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Letters from a Pond in Lithuania
Into the pond I toss them: a handful of torn up bits of paper marked with ink. It is a gesture like scattering seed. The first utterance, The last...
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The Gloaming of a Golden Era and Other Literary Leftovers in the Form of a Finale
One Hans Robert's Upper Lip Hans Robert's upper lip curled under the effects of supercilious pride as the sun rained down onto the parade ground. His...
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The Wrong Mutton, Boobs, Chariot Races and Home. ( Part 11)
Early in 1947, my mate Jack and I were given a week’s leave to go to a place called Beppu. Beppu is on the island of Kyushu, which meant a very long...
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The Boy from the Tail End of the Goldhawk Road
The Boy from the Tail End of the Goldhawk Road I was born Carl Robert Halling at the tail end of the Goldhawk Road which runs through Shepherds Bush...
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Remembrance Day Part 1
He loathed that moment of hearing the phone ring at the other end of the line, sat waiting for the voice at the other end to cut it off, with a "...
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Summing up for LEGGINGS
Roots and the meaning of Discrimination. In the beginning of the worlds there was distinct differences between the Scots clans: so much so that some...
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The Testimony of a Rock and Roll Child and Other Christian Writings One The Testimony of a Rock and Roll Child 2/Two Apologia for a Cyberchurch
The Testimony of a Rock and Roll Child 2/Conclusion Many might be forgiven for suggesting that my walk with God has not been an easy one, and I'd be...
The Testimony of a Rock and Roll Child and Other Christian Writings One The Testimony of a Rock and Roll Child 1
The Testimony of a Rock and Roll Child 1 Introduction Many Christians are of the opinion that the longer a person puts off coming to Christ the less...
A Guide
I cannot paint What I then was. --Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey Walking is such an integral part of my perception of the world that it’s hard to point...
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Twenty One A Final Distant Clarion Cry 1
Chapter Twenty One A Final Distant Clarion Cry Introduction A Final Distant Clarion Cry consists of diverse unrelated writings which I painstakingly...
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Twenty The Twilight of an Actor
Chapter Twenty The Twilight of an Actor Introduction In the first place The Twilight of an Actor existed as nothing more than the poem Such a Short...
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Nineteen The Trials of a Teetotaller
Chapter Nineteen The Trials of a Teetotaller Introduction The Trials of a Teetotaller was originally published as Release, Relapse and Restoration at...
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Eighteen Beyond the Borderlands
Chapter Eighteen Beyond the Borderlands Introduction A first version of Beyond the Borderlands was published at Blogster on the 5th of September 2006...
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These My Daughter Taught Me
Made me see the beauty in the common and garden weed...
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The Missing Piece
I notice, the tear in my shirt, hanging out, slumped down in the kitchen, afterwork, tired and tied rather than rooted to the spot. A violent tear, a...
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Fiesta time!
The Fiesta failed the MoT
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Seventeen Oblivion in Recession
Chapter Seventeen Oblivion in Recession Introduction The versified piece, Oblivion in Recession , has its origins in rambling notes I made towards...
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Swift
Swift The Swifts lace the early – Summer evening air With cries of despair like The melancholy of my heart I feel the warm atmosphere On my skin like...
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Sixteen Lone Birthday Boy Dancing
Chapter Sixteen Lone Birthday Boy Dancing The Petrified Fool In early 1990, I lost my position as a teacher of English as a foreign language at the...
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Fifteen Strange Coldness Perplexing
Chapter Fifteen Strange Coldness Perplexing A “definitive” version of Strange Coldness Perplexing was first published at FaithWriters on the 31st of...
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Fourteen A Cambridge Lamentation
Chapter Fourteen A Cambridge Lamentation Introduction A Cambridge Lamentation centres on my brief stay at Coverton College, a teacher training...
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