Cherry

For mind reading

There’s nothing I can determine from the way you hold your coffee, or the slice of yellow in your iris, so I hold the bracelet you bought me, glass redcurrants skished in my palm.
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I’ve just had an apostrophe

The floor under the window is getting lighter but when I quote Bob Hoskins in ‘Hook’, you switch on the light to write a speedy poem on a page already containing
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Stroanfreggan

I hope I remember the house on the third cattle grate, bread bin post box and deep stone wall. The school room where children, miles from home, once learnt grammar,
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The Face of Ze'ev

The cab launched and swerved through the winding subarbs of Jerusalem. I took in a lungful of warm, tarmac-and-olive tinged air, and I knew I was back. How long had it been - three, four years?

Too many

Reflecting on the current state of humanity.

Chapter Two: Jenny and Carla

The Three Halves of Martyn Manning Chapter Two
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Issue

So he approximates neurosis for the cameras but offset he's congruent as a set of satellite blueprints. It's just mind tourism, the flirting with thought-walks

I Am Still Here

It's like that story about the man trapped down the well - the children found him but they would not go for help. There is no moral to the story; the kids' paralysis and the adult unable
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A Mind Reader Once

A mind reader once turned his powers against himself and saw God's strobing eye in the feedback loop, glassy like a porthole and gazing at nothing specific. Next he saw a cherry tree

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