Autobiography
black coffee
This morning quiet modern apartment turned off heater surfed 100 channels found a decent B-movie, temperature perfect the usual muscle pains sunny blue sky outside
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amen it sucks though
I personally think a return to mother nature is inevitable for every living creature.No amount of words or manmade thought will prevent this.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 14
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A Gambler Born and Bred 13
I caught a flight bleary-eyed with £100 to my name on the day that the Gulf War began; 8th of December 1990.
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RAIN ON CORRUGATED ZINC ROOF
Dozed Thought I heard A sound Sounds like A knock Incessant Yet Pleasant Not human Sound But natural Rhythmic Like soft music A beat of Talking drum Was reminded By mum
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The Comin g of Age. November. Part 1.
Some awkward moments
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Nicolaus Copernicus In My Mother's New Kitchen
The centre of it all, he says, is her Russell Hobbes kettle. Everything revolves around it - is drawn to it like the sun. And the steam that gushes forth from
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A Gambler Born and Bred12
Back in Guildford, I started smoking again and decided to save up and go back to London. This time it would be different. I’d make a real go of it this time.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 11
It was strange, playing the machines after so long.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 10
Thank God for France In April, I caught a flight to Nice and then took the train to Antibes.
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The Coming of Age. October Part 3.
A bit of nooky.
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Dread (I.P.)
I do actualy imagine the loss, too often maybe I also wonder, I don't mean to or want to, I just am so worried one day it could happen. No I (dexaggerate?), I do actually, I dread,
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The Coming of Age. October Part 2.
A Day Out.
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A Bitter Account Of Spring
That after taste after a shot of Vodka Or the jealous remarks about another girls dress Self pity when someone else is the winner Or blaming God when things don't go to plan
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The wicker basket
Dad was holy on his Sunday afternoon nap. It usually resulted in good sports followed by a descent hiding all round.
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Scene Obscene (song lyrics)
Got the syllable counts for the rhythm on, hence the numbers!
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Me, You and Peon
You always said, no matter what happens, we'll have a good time. I never doubted you.
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All my exes
All my exes My exes live in notebooks, drinking cans of red stripe under trees at outdoor gigs reading paperbacks with slick limbed Charlotte’s, Maya’s, Kirsty’s.
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The mistake collector
Because of the gilt armoires, the piano in the drawing room, the velvet curtains closing on dressing assistants, the women emerging all iconic praline the chivalric man shaped penguins;
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Good beginnings
Good beginnings I am clean, my hair is dandelion, I am wearing dungarees, my mother’s wrist crops the shot, holding me para-glider above the basket.
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REWINDING CHILDHOOD MEMORY
Happy memories Of childhood Took sixty years To rewind Allowing me To be innocent And Content Once again Nice to recount Childhood Account After church Service Breakfast eaten
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Accept
Yes I am here And I don’t feel like going, You don’t know me You don’t need to. Life keeps trying to tell me what to do, And I don’t trust it, It knows me about as much as you do,
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The Coming of Age October. Part 1.
Jessica has a date.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 9
On the ferry, I played the fruit-machine for half an hour but when I saw that my funds had already dwindled by twenty pounds, I panicked and sought company elsewhere.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 8
I found a job at Milford Chest Hospital washing dishes, working all shifts over Christmas and New Year by doing speed from the moment I woke up.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 7
At sixteen, I spent the summer holidays farting about in Guildford. It felt great knowing that I was free to do as I wanted again.
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CAN'T RID OF ME
Can't turn me off Like leaking tap Can't wish me off Like a disturbibg Nightmares In your dream Or dark thoughts I will still be Here & there And everywhere You are Like a fixture
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A Gambler Born and Bred 6
1977-1981 After scraping through my entrance exams, I was transferred to the senior school. There was instantly more time. We were given freedom to wander.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 5
1976, Colwyn Bay/New Brighton The first year was tough. The prep school was high up in the hills, miles from town and the prom, and we were only allowed out on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 4
I tried my first cigarette and became a fan of Embassies. Menthol was like breathing thin air through bubblegum.
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AM VEGETARIAN I SAID...
I told someone I was Vegetarian She said Poor man You are missing Something Fundamental She said You are mad Out of your mind Continued To pile up insult Like a goat How can
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Harley Street
‘Mary,’ Ma shouted up the stairs, ‘there’s somebody at the door for you.’
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Fragment
Don’t trust the others, they don’t show the proper respect for funny feelings!
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For those who have fallen
For those who have fallen
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Grandma's Face
She was following Helena Chroy’s ‘Exercise Your Face to Astounding Loveliness’ regime, as set out in ‘Beauty Secrets the Ancients Don’t Want You to Know’.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 3
1973 One day, aged eight, I was passing a neighbour’s car when I thought I noticed a twenty-pound note inside. I spun around on my bike and there it was, sat by the hand brake.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 2
Summer of 1972, New Brighton At seven years of age, I found myself in the enviable position of being the youngest in a big family, living in a big house, my mother’s little golden boy.
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A Gambler Born and Bred 1
Here are five of my typical gambling formats:
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The Coming of Age, September, Part 3.
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Lost inside
Though it hurt's to be close to her heart. As it's beautifully close to mine.
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The all Seeing Eye
A reflective opinion of myself, writing as I sit and contemplate. Feel free to comment, infact please do.
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(A Funny Thing Happened) Part 2
Dorothy meets the three witches.
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HERE AND THERE
My experience Is wide and varied Amusing at times Delightful & worrying At other times Have three stories To tell Separate Amusing but Real In an Astronimy class A classmate
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Going Down to the Sea Again
...the boarding of a train on our yearly pilgrimage to Broadstairs.
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14. Never a dull moment…
Time off to bury the sea legs, reflect on slapping someone, a decent meal and then, it finally happens. Alessio, cream your pants, gorgeous.
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Poem for Essex
Key ignition The day is a blanket round a heater a matchbox burning in a fireplace grate. The conference is compulsory, the breakfast; a cold knife battle with butter
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Why I wrote my 1st book "An Ode to Id"
(essay contest) 1. What made you write your book? 2. How did your book change your life? 3. How did it change the lives of others? 4. What would you say to someone who can't read?
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womans' story so far
a brief summary of womens' heroic struggle, from lilith to women today
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Philosophy of younger years (2007)
Found this on a scrap of paper in an old foot rest, think its from 2007.
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Lucid Dreams In Moscow
Part One of a two-part series of poems on my experiences of Russia. 'Looming before me, St Basil's basks in camera flashes, with its candy-cane swirls and pretentious pastels,'
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NATURE
From early childhood I was surrounded by flora, nature at its wildest stage. We had a vast back garden that was untamed.
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The Coming of Age September Part 2
Jessica goes to a party
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Adolescent Solitude
Adolescent solitude, like a baby abandoned in a park swing. How could somewhere so colourful, so beautiful and vibrant, become such a daunting threat?
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My montage
The day I was born kicking and screaming as I left the womb, so many years ahead, little did I know back then I would become who I am now. My first day of year 4,
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Meeting Bosch at the Prado
Poem inspired by Bosch's painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights". http://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/online-gallery/on-line-gal...
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I wish......
I wish you were here with me at the moment....... I wish I could feel you......... I wish I could feel your feeling my hair and consoling me, patting my back..........
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A Hymn for the Cigarettes
no peer pressure or impressing bigger boys I just went to the hotel cigarette machine
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Something That Mattered
Ever wondered about your usefulness to mankind?
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