Autobiography

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A Medal!

For R, who sends smiles.
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Rubber soles – the shoes from hell

It is the summer of 1976. The long, hot, scorching summer of 1976. It is the dawn of punk and the inauguration of an upsurge in safety pin sales...

Leggings - an early Cockney's chorus...

It's 5am, and the world is a little asleep...

Wet Dog's Nostalgia

Damned be that plastic uniform when I was in the 7th grade or so it stuck to my knees I pulled it down with my left hand but it was still too short...

Butterfly in a Jar

I. Steam and smoke covering the small barred window. Drug induced blurred vision. As if chestnut flowers were spreading light like chandeliers,...

The Dam

I lived well among childhood's charming things and temptations until about the age of 13 Then some people began to build a dam in our village. From...
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Here is your thread

don't think this is quite fitting together...please excuse the dire sub-poetry-stuff/bits :-/
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Counting the Hours

I'm counting down the hours until my daughter arrives home from over the sea and far away. It's been three years since I've seen her. I speak to her...
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Dust

I sit on the grassy hill- halfway up, tall trees’ seem to wriggle their leaves at me as wetness seeps through from the dead cut grass; a soiled pull-...