Autobiography
Birth of a Salesman: The Toad
What do you do in a job interview when you're asked to pretend that you're a shopping trolley? You die a little inside, that's what.
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Hair
Like a loaf of bread? (with an f-bomb)
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Adieu (Cold Turkey.........)
Adieu – to God
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Open Return
Your dimples danced for the conductor hid stiff behind the sliding door.
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As sunlight hits grass
As sunlight hits grass I have sat here before in this wooden chair pretending to read but secretly watching as you turn and change change and turn from natural form to man made blades
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??How Now, Brown Cow??
About a mile from the highway, on the dirt road of my youth, I saw a tiny blonde girl (absolutely lovely) in love with a brown cow She stroked his neck, their love separated by barb-wire
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odd dreams, late summer 2010
just had a weird dream in which I was planning on obtaining LSD but was first unsuccessfully straightening up my room(the one I used to have in my parents' house,) when I was disturbed and surprised b
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Clouds
Clouds.. Grey, white, dark or black, One above the other arranged on a stack. Two of them in such a way, So as to look like a fighter plane. Some to show a barking dog,
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Despair Came Knocking
"Despair came knocking at my door, and I let her in for a little while." - Daniel Johnston I'm listening to "Twilight" by Elliott Smith who created a lot of beautiful music
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Benzos
My oldest friend e-mailed me from the sands of Afghanistan and then went back to his gun, leaving me to reminesce on a hundred discussions, and a hundred games of racquet-ball On the T.V.,
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Wolfman
had the old musty smell of damp fur as he prowled the shopping precinct, nosing in waste bins for scraps of some lost life or leftovers to build a future, circling round the shoppers
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Bull's Eye
It stared up at me, the lidless eye in thick white fat, a fixed look of one-eyed surprise. The object was dissection, to get at how this unseeing eye worked, peer and poke
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Her delicate kiss.
As I slowly lift my head to face the sky, I feel the warmth of the summer rain, Slowly kiss open my swollen eyes; And in the midst of their fall, A sound... delicate...
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Birthday
No discount is offered for customers using their own bowling shoes.
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En Vacance
When we got back it was raining and Ulrika had died.
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Random Souls I've Known
I met Seth in a rehab/ crisis center. He was a white guy with dark hair, buddy-holly glasses and a frequent smirk.
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Lunatic Soup
Gallons of coffee, a liter of absinthe, cigarettes and crayons, beets and carrots, food-stamps, group therapy, art therapy, T.V. delusions of grandeur, panic attacks,
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Honey You're Home!
Come and get me already.
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From Inside a Black Dog
All the walls are closing in, Moist and dark - they touch my skin, There’s no way in and no way out, This fleshy prison veined with doubt. I have screamed and I have cried
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A Dream I had
Just a dream I had
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didgeridoos (Recycled) - IP piece
I took a sledgehammer to it and dislocated all its joints.
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Richard
On your desk rotting corpses, the Granny-Smith Graveyard grows twice a day. Skin of twenty pencils HBs, Bs, 2Bss, the green ones from Jarrolds Two oak leaves from the river
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To Do
I started to write a list of all the poems I haven't written, all the pictures I haven't painted, and all the little things I haven't done. I got distracted by coffee granules
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Playing out with friends!
I place my feet in your trainers then place my jacket by the door I edge my way to the couch and sit down I wait for the knock that will lift me off the seat and into the hallway.
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The Pine Marten and the Coypu
I feel that I should clarify that both are real animals. It seems that I was wrong. Sorry. I've heard that Rob likes the idea of trapping, or perhaps he just likes the word 'trapping'?
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And Whatnot
"Hiya" she said. "I was talking to my friend Jane and found something interesting out". "Oh yeah?" I replied, not breaking my gaze from the screen. "It seems she has taken
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Dreams About Dad
Sweating and trembling I barely whisper the words, keeping them under my breath, I hardly hear them, “leave me alone”.
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Owl
My housemate has bought a kitten and called him Ahab after the character in Moby-Dick. Ahab is the tyrannical captain of a whaleship, apparently. I've never read the book,
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Environment
Its time to take notice and take steps, To save our planet, our mother earth. The resources are scarce and overexploitation is huge. We are ripping our planet nude.
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Beheld
Stalker? Viewpoint of the jilted, wilted unloved?
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my orbit
It often seems I'm going nowhere, though other times I'm zooming and there's no contradiction there It's an old dance and through the amnesia, I know it well: different phases,
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Swallowing Barbed Wire
Marking a year of flying solo.
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The walk to remember
It was ten minutes to midnight, Everything was so still, so quiet. Walking hand in hand , Towards a destination unknown, Everything special about the moment, Especially of not being alone.
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Walls
Her wishes and ashes Took me to Newcastle Cheap Bed and Breakfast Opposite Westgate Bowling Hadrian’s wall glimpsed Between Sari and betting shops? Over the hilltops
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Blackberry Picking
That's a better version
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The Fall of France
All gone. Every bit of it gone. Why am I here? One short summer, a lifetime ago.
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Cote d'Azur
You stripped off on the beach...
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The Poem With No Name
I am infinite consciousness having the experience of being an outraged individual I am everything that has been and ever will be surrounded by mountains of shit and detritus
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They couldn't stop tickling each other
They always read the same books, side by side in bed, turning pages simultaneously.
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Reflections
Another personal reflection. A bit more positive than the iron bound chest!
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Wish You Were Here? (I.P.)
(Edit) A honeymoon story in 60 words...and they're all true!
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Happy Independence Day
It’s the day to celebrate, the freedom of our motherland. The day to rejoice, the day to enjoy and To remember the country for once, Not feeling ashamed by the way it runs.
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Nothing to prove
I had a feeling for paper, not new but urgent, It was ferried by thoughts, numbed from being stuck in muds of memories,
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Post
Years later I moved I'd had enough of the city life the Nottinghamshire countryside beckoned.
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Cleaning
'Your drinking has got out of control' my cleaner tells me
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THE CITY CALLS
I was feeling down about being trapped in the country so I wrote this. It cheered me up. Writing always does.
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STARRY NIGHT
a starry night 3:04 AM: an apartment parking lot in a mostly safe neighborhood, quiet except for the melodic call of a passing freight train the invalid artist takes his exercise:
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Insomnias
I have insomnia. No, not nights and days on end blood-shot eyes, leaden legs "copy-of-a-copy" almost-wish-I-were-dead INSOMNIA no, just 1:27 AM weary-but-can't-sleep edgy-from-a-full-day
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Lord, do not hate me cause
i'm a hypocrite, i was so envious of wealthy white people, i dolized them, they were so beautiful and so in the center, i wanted so much to be a part of their group
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Heart sweet
Heart sweet I knew you would do this, but I sealed my instinct and kept it in hope kitchens. When the rain fell on the tent, I comma curled and let my stupid heart fix.
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Disenchanted
It's a longer one, but I really appreciate you taking the time to read ;) I stand before the mirror, let my dress crumple to the floor, strip until all that is left is my necklace...
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ONE REASON WE DON'T PLAY AROUND HERE.
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Words of wisdom
Words of wisdom learn by your mistakes, dont let your mistakes learn you. life is just a test i reckon those who are greedy in riches do not find a true love,
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THE MERLIN AND THE SPARROW
A short story I wrote in no more than 60 words.
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Memories of the first and last time I was in Cornwall
It's good to look back on times gone by.
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The Bully
After all these years, I feel the same...
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Secret Siblings.
Do you know Miffy?
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Ups and Downs
Being alone always gets me thinking. And that’s not always a good thing... :-(
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Open University
Come October a new life opens up for me. Will I be able to cope? Will I be able to co-join with other people? Am I ready to mix and learn?
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