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Gardens

By Ewan on Tue, 13 Aug 2024

IP. I don't do these often, you can see why. Image author's own, garden not.

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Cohen claimed that all his lyrics were just poetry. He would write on anything that came to hand, sift through fragments later, pairing them up, piecing them together, one step up from Dada-ist Triztan Tzara's cut-ups, I suppose. Anyway, that's what i like to do, write bits and join them up later - or not.

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"That's Entertainment!"

By Ewan on Sun, 11 Aug 2024

I'm sure you'll work it out. Image is PD!!! By some 19th century geezer called Guillaume.

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Akushla Dockery* (Is Vic There?)

By Ewan on Wed, 07 Aug 2024

What IS he on about? Ahhh, now, wouldn't that be tellin'? Image Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Image creator _SID_ Image Source flickr.com

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Fly Agaric!

Posted on Tue, 16 Jul 2024

Hahahahaha... let's hope Spencer never encounters the real thing... Still enjoying this very much indeed.

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Much as I love the work of Mr Zimmerman,

Posted on Tue, 09 Jul 2024

- and I really do, for I consider Blood on the Tracks one of the best albums ever made - I doubt he ever wrote anything as unambiguous as this poem. I only wrote it* because I wanted to record it.

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Not everyone finds

Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024

their place, but I'm very glad you've found yours. Otherwise, there would be none of this acerbically-tinged whimsy to cheer me up when I read it.

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Those hellions sounded

Posted on Tue, 11 Jun 2024

very reasonable sorts to me... Really very good indeed. Well done!

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I always vote as a matter of course

Posted on Fri, 24 May 2024

because I feel I have no right to complain if I don't. I even voted for 10 of the 15 years I lived in Spain, which was all that was permitted.
Proportional Representation is not inevitable, but it should be.

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There is nothing

Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024

anyone but the people of the nation making that claim can do regarding their country's attitude to the war in Ukraine.

What surprises me is that the 'Base' seem unaware that the right wing is very strong in Ukraine, I expect Trump is...

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Exactly so.

Posted on Mon, 15 Apr 2024

Israel needs the goodwill of - for want of another term - the West: Netanyahu is obliterating that as surely as his bombs are the buildings of Gaza. The Islamic Republic of Iran knows that their drones and missiles will have no effect at all,...

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Congratulations, this is our Poem of the Week 22 March 2024

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Sometimes,

Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024

I lose sight of what ABCTales is REALLY for. Jean D's account of the most terrible thing any of us will ever face has brought me back down to earth time and again, and furthermore, left me feeling - to be quite honest - a bit of a self-centred...