Autobiography
Out of the Mouths...(I.P.)
A family meal in the Beijing Palace, and the waiter says to her...
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The Longest Day
The quickening thrill still trembles in the memory of my palm cupped gently lest I crushed the terrible delicacy and tender fragility of embryonic...
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FUNKY GIBBON
One day in 1966 – or it may be five, or four – I was standing in the kitchen, when I heard the mighty roar Of Dad’s trusty old blue moped which he...
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Once Upon a Life...
I got into bed – made love with the boy – happened to be there
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Waiting for Godfrey
So, what's up, Godfrey; cat got your tongue?
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His Will be Done
...that small, silver cross catching the light...
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the Mole-man, 'a poetic vignette'
The seekers descend: the blonde-maned blue-eyed man, the sweetly-spoken tiger-eyed sisters, the sleek Sara gazelle, the lonely orangutant, Rodan's...
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The world is such a beautiful place
I really must get some sleep my eye lids closing like squeezed out half lemons Burning from the noxious fumes and swirls of the last cigarette before...
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Dear Darling...
"Please excuse my writing; I can’t stop my hands from shaking..." http://www.muzu.tv/olly-murs/dear-darlin-music-video/1878041/
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Anniversary
48 and counting. An acrostic poem.
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Swallows and Sauté Pans
We were in the field, picking the first of the spring greens,
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Letting Go
A quieter day at work today and so I took the opportunity to take the short drive into town, bought lunch – scraping together the change from the...
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For Elice
I was a Foods and Nutrition major in the Home Economics Department at North Dakota State Universiry. I didn't really enjoy food that much, but this...
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Martha's Moved On
Pseudo-folk doggerel for the broken-hearted...
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Void Street haiku set
Night now, sleep a dream, our Edens scorched, furrowed brows... torches in darkness Silicon psyches, suboxone souls, walking grayves... we are...
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Shorty
I have a tiny cock Like a crooked little finger Everybody else's dick Is inevitably bigger If six inch as an average Can truly be believed Someone...
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Friend of Mine
~~ Dear Diary...it was my privilege to have been around in the early 1970s, some incredible memories stand out for me, though time has a habit of...
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Frank and his cat (The Odd Couple)
When I was 21, I lived in New York, on Staten Island, and worked as an Dietitic intern. It was a wonderful year, and I made many very good friends...
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Oh Susannah, O Don't You Cry
Little lump of life Lying on my lap Gently rocking Gently breathing Slighly wheezy Soon be sleeping Please don't cry Please don't wake Please don't...
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The Mirror
The Mirror I look in the mirror And what do I see My mother's eyes Smiling at me. My father's chin and Mouth which reveal A determined mind But not...
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On The Way Out
Certainty? Certainly little doubt that I'm on the way out; just about to leave, keys weighing in the scales of my hands and standing, feeling the...
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Turkish Delights
“I would like to take you to my bed ---.” These words, whispered softly but quite sincerely absolutely threw me. What was going on here? Why did this...
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The Art of Letting Go
A balloon wafted over my yard today... reminded me of a Mother’s Day six years ago, now.
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Drama on C3 - part 2
Part 2. One medical team came on rounds and when they came to Emily’s bed, they spent quite a time discussing together and looking at x-rays before...
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Days of Mine...and, If Onlys
For her, way back then, each day was a colour; Monday – black, meant school again
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A Day in the Life
Ran into someone the other day hadn’t seen for ages; definitely not since...
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Most of the Deadly Sins
The idea of spending two weeks of the Costa del Sol with three friends sharing my passion for bridge sounded delightful. Of similar age, I assumed...
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Bike Ride
February brings Croydon riding through train frantic pedestrians mazing through gridlocked streets threatening rain. Emerge from the morning rush...
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the All too Early Birds
As soon as I wake I dream about the time I can go back to dreaming A morning An afternoon And evening to plan for it But I know When the option comes...
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being sober
i've been sober for 40 days now. my back aches. i don't feel well. my body is suddenly realizing that it's almost 42 years old. my butt farts at...
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Laugh at Terrible Things
*** Laughter is free ***
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Lies
Lies Is it the connection you cherish but hide Is it the way she moves you inside Is it her audacity you yearn to clutch Is it her emotion you care...
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The Spawn of the Swinging Sixties Chapter Six The Sweetness of Wrens
Chapter Five Once in an English Seaside Town Once in an English Seaside Town*, was forged in February-March 2006 from scribblings committed to a...
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That Field
THAT FIELD That field, the one in my fantasies, it was out HWY 234 or HWY 288. It really doesn’t matter because you cannot go there anymore. The...
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4 day holiday 14-17/2/14
[Bitter storm …sunshine … full waterfalls … coal tits]
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The Gypsy - part 2
Part 2 For a few seconds after I returned to the table neither of us spoke. I was quite sure that the gypsy was smoldering at her lack of success...
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The Gypsy - part 1
THE GYPSY part 1 My neighbor, Gladys and I were sitting quietly in my kitchen having coffee and biscuits and our bi-weekly chat about our children,...
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Wednesday Evening Tea With Rich - Video - Facebook Whore
My son did in fact call me Facebook Whore. http://youtu.be/4oC30X9WZWY
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Thoughts upon the difference between beer and wine
Once made from hops beer is drank not savoured. Its glugged and guzzled -not quaffed: sloshed down Either from aluminium cans or in pint –or if...
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To No One
*** Only the moon seemed to want me ***
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a poem for the God of Theatur
setting: Settling in over appetizers and absinthe, seated in an august university music hall: an audience of beautifully-dressed and assortedly...
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scream
scream God is an Idea given to man in a story that we shape! Shouts the sawtoothed man with his slack cock gyrating in hands A myriad of trumped up...
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A school dinner
How can I say this....I loved my school dinners. (Lunches I would say now I suppose, but back then dinner was in the middle of the day.) My primary...
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Tram
Silence is being interrupted by loud raping from earphones of kid standing nearby and noisy moves of tram doors. After exhausting day I am standing...
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Leggings fitting things in.. towards the end again.
A moment of reflection.... They are too intrusive: they say they have Grandfather's (mine not theirs) stuff and can use it to improve their psychic...
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Second Grade Scandal
I loved going to school but cried on the first day because I had wanted Sister Martha, who used to give the children crackers to eat after they’d...
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Fleeting Moments
I see my children, The sun in their hair, the wind in their clothes, The sky in their eyes. Freedom is theirs, Fleeting, but true. Emotions so pure,...
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Distractions
She walked down the street at a pace that suggested she had somewhere to go, but it was not at a pace that suggested being in a hurry. The green...
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Keeps
The old key keeps Its place amongst the others on the ring I guess I just couldn't bring myself to press the metal open And push it free, Throw it...
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Maniac's Montage
2 Sheriffs see red head-lights burning bright ahead to stop Flight 52 (haiku) Flight-ladies served him absinthes, a 'London Times,' and gushing...
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Give me the image of my soul
I wish it would come The day dream figure The half-imagined stab at truth I wish it would come into night time Make itself less amorphous More...
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Built on Sand
It was a weekend of rituals. Guy Fawkes’ Night as ever combined the ancient practice of bonfires with the recollection of seventeenth-century “...
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Why Do They Do That?
I had bought my lovely knitted Diesel green gloves; they were SO special to me, that was last year. I was always careful to put each glove in each of...
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One More Thing Before I Go...
So many things I wanted to ask you
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Birthday
In two days' time it will be my birthday. I am dreading it.
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The Follower - Leggings ???
The Follower! In the town there is a woman who wants a sycaphant or two. Lately she's become demanding about being first in the queue. She stands too...
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Perish Song
I am having an episode. I am experiencing crippling nightmares. Literally, if I let myself doze off for a moment I enter a trance in which I cannot...
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half-moon haiku set
Primitive fog-light it cuts and calls through thick mist... but the light passes tired eyes gaze out a green-tinted brow as if at some B-movie Future...
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