ABCtales London Evening reminder and other stuff

Hi ABCtalers,

Just a quick reminder that we will be upstairs at The Wheatsheaf, 25, Rathbone Place, London W1T 1DG on Wednesday September 21st starting at 7 p.m. That's tomorrow!

It will be our usual mix of wonderful readings of poetry and prose from ABCtales members. Now booked are: Jennifer, the Wilky Bar Kid, Lavadis, Maggy van Eijk, David Floyd (aka bukharinwasmyfavouritecommunist), Beeme, Simon Barget, Paddy Johnston and Graham Clifford.

Entry is £5, £2 concessions with all profits going to The Railway Children charity.

Blood Money (Chapters twenty seven and twenty eight.)

Continued.

Looking in the Mirror

I see sagging eyelids And draggy cheeks needing Some toning up

Blood Money (chapters twenty five and twenty six.)

Continued.

violinless

can’t play a violin for ya honey if ya never help yourself, we been waiting on your reconsiderations we been waiting on the shelf--- we been watching from a distance

le givre

and when morning comes you’ll be more aware than before.

gray materia

“All in all is all we are.” -lyric from the Nirvana song, “All Apologies,” from the album “In Utero”

What do you mean, you don't know how?

I sit there humiliated, my masculinity in tatters and my cool factor reduced to zero.

My women before me

I dream of a blend of your faces As we have known them My women before me. So like nuts – the shell being unpicked to leave a sweetmeat centre

Baby brother 3/9

Jennifer Jane had flown to Lurbridge and was sitting comfortably in the George and Dragons drinking her ginger beer.

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