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The Vagabond Heirs of Francisco Franco

By Ewan on Sun, 08 Dec 2024

They sit in every cafe-bar named after the street on whose corner it squats. Smoking, small-eyed, wall-eyed moustachioed muchachos remembering kisses...

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Time

By Ewan on Tue, 19 Nov 2024

Should have spent more with them. That's advice I'd give my younger self.

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Tales of the Unconnected

By Ewan on Wed, 13 Nov 2024

yeah, well, sometimes explaining won't do. Image is from wikipedia... and appropriately unconnected with the poem.

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