Stress Test
By mcmanaman
poems from stress test, with joe and martha
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90 miles an hour is the speed I drive
Some people really like driving. In July I drove to Wales in a hire car Not for any reason, it’s just sometimes I like to drive to Wales. I like to...
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Bringing down the birds
I have never walked across this field before it's not one of those fields for walking across it has crops that are probably important but it's been...
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Collaborations don't work
This is enough, all the mums say. Everyone knew someone at primary school who pushed on the roundabout too hard. 'It would be easier if this child...
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Compliments Please
I told you I liked your new glasses and you touched the plastic at the bridge of your nose and smiled. I wear glasses sometimes and someone I didn't...
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Animal Crackers
It's like when you're visiting friends who have animals, they just assume you are comfortable with unusual birds flapping by year earlobes and a...
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Oops ah
She shows no interest in my new Kickers. They didn't let me have another drink. I promised I'd text when I got home safely. I didn't pass my twelve...
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Marc with a c
He reads out the long number of his card, the sort code, the expiry date, ‘422, Natwest, Marc with a c, Martin with a y, Jonsson with no h and two ns...
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They have decided they might get a dog
It had been their ‘on the way home from work’ pub conversation. Let’s both make a list of pros and cons. Long walks in parks hand in hand, saying ‘...
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Even wider than it was before
I walk past a teenager eating a cooked breakfast on his own in a brightly coloured café and immediately remember a holiday when I was about fifteen,...
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Push Me In The River
If you have ever fallen into a moat, lake, swamp, paddling pool or any small body of water you will know how I feel right now. This is a go home...
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Above The Fireplace
It began with a silence no-one could explain. The silence that makes you touch your necklace or reach for a jumper, anything that has texture. It is...
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Please laugh in her face
I'm not going to tell you that April phoned. I know what you will say. 'Of course she did, and I bet you answered and I bet you didn't make any...
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Virile Paintily Composition
They asked me to rate my experience, thumbs up or thumbs down. I clicked thumbs up and they asked 'What was your favourite?' I typed in 'hippopotamus...
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