Dumping Carrots

You take your average severed finger, place it inside a convenience salad box, wrapped up in a bed of shredded lettuce leaves for company. You send it on its way.
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THE PIE SHOP. Chapter Ten Tommy's Creed

Messing about on the river?

Three Than-Bauk

Than-Bauk has Burmese origins, it has three lines, each with four syllables. It has a falling or climbing rhyme. 1st line 4th syllable, 2nd line 3rd syllable and 3rd line 2nd syllable.

Kilby Bridge

Based on a re-curing childhood nightmare. My Father died from wounds received during the war when I was just 10 months old and I never knew him. That fact has always haunted me.

Overload

During an attack of Meniere's disease
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Pear-Shaped

My body is wrong. Every crease, every curve Is a contradiction, Like a figure eight Seen in a warped mirror.
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Dinner Is Always Gone Too Soon

Dinner is always gone too soon The plate too quickly cleared. Leaving worn ceramic patterns and a fat man’s lonely fears. In the darkened hours that lie ahead Before the next meal comes

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What Kind of a Name is Penelope?

She stirred up the leaves with her white, spiky Nikes.

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