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Our Town
What it says, I suppose. Anyway, not original, not much, but there are hundreds of towns like this all over the country. Image by ME Audio available
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Ghosts in the Machine
An old friend died a few days ago. Faceache sent me a friend request from him. He was already my friend, so I knew it was some hacker. I took the appropriate action. (No, not write this poem). Image authors own created at Canva.com
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Bronte's Inferno XXX (They're Not A L L Mad)
Aren't they, though? Still hunting for licence or rights for this image... Will remove if man he say no.
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Bronte's Inferno XXIX ("I Blame Cellini")
More of this. Image author's own.
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Play the B-Side
You know it. Image source wikipedia.org and used under fair use terms.
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It's fairly recent
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
from a US radio advertising campaign from the 30's I think. It means this is going/has started well - possibly after repeated failed attempts. Popularised by Jack Benny and the like in comedy sketches thereafter.
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This
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2019
topical piece captures the futility of getting away from it all, whatever "it" is, it's in our baggage and that's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
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Most enjoyable.
Posted on Thu, 07 Feb 2019
One or two things. Incognito is one word.
Kirk is almost exclusively used for Church in the Church of Scotland. Your priest(s) are Catholics, I presume, since they practise the rite of Exorcism.
I like the idea of the stories being...
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I wonder
Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2019
what the playground chants are now... we used to parrot chants about Ho Chi Minh, with no clue where Vietnam was. This has that kind of hypnotic rhythm. Cleverly done.
best
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Posted in Don't count your chickens
Lots to Enjoy
Posted on Fri, 21 Dec 2018
in this deceptively simple poem. I wonder if wouldn't work better without the first line? You show us all of that in the rest of the poem.
This is particularly beautiful
I turn once more to the laundry.
Read full commentIt is evening now...
Posted in love and laundry
It's worrying
Posted on Tue, 17 Jul 2018
looking back, sometimes. Old pals who took apprenticeships at 16 haven't lifted a tool in 30 years. Policemen some of them, or RAC men. The lucky few might do some shop-fitting though they're time-served carpenters and joiners. One lathe-turner...
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It's funny
Posted on Thu, 07 Jun 2018
if you'd asked me 10 years ago about the cathartic benefits of writing, I'd have laughed in your face. How wrong can one be? I suppose the point is it enables you (me, one etc.) to take your feelings outside and examine them, turning them over to...
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This
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day, it is a skilful two-parter which really drew this reader in.
Please read part two...
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Glad
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
you ended it here. I am a fan of unresolved fiction, especially in short stories. Skilful writing which drew me in.
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Me too.
Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018
I hope you don't mind, I've put a link to part two at the bottom. .
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