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TEST Please ignore
Let us put thewordstogether keep them apart s t r e w them on the page sdrawkcab meht etirw D R O P T H E M use them abuse them until we wrench...
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Don't Ask
So many people in the Armed Forces back in the day - before don't ask don't tell - were living a lie. I'm glad most of them are still friends.
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The Esoteric Few
Whom Byron claimed one of his poems was written for. Not this one, because it's mine, but it's still for the esoteric few. Image author's own
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No-one Found
Nowadays we need closure. In the past, it might have been a long and lingering grief, we have forgotten what it is like not to know, which must make it even harder to bear. Image is PD, YAY!
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wOr d S
what it s a ys Image created by author at canva.com
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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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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...
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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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Congratulations
Posted on Thu, 05 Apr 2018
this is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Why not share or retweet if you like it too?
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