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Windfall.
We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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Missed You.
My junkie girlfriend sold her body to feed her habit. ‘I’m no doing any harm,’ she said. ‘I sold myself tae you. Look how that fucking worked oot?’ I...
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Tilly cut loose from the day
Tilly cut loose from the day Brightness like a red balloon Utterances dumbstruck with gravity Details don’t matter Holding onto her giggling A...
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Uncle John's Popemobile.
Black specks were moving on the stacked plates of uneaten leftovers and the casual smears of a man that had tried to tidy up. Casualties lay on the...
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Sweaty
Sweaty was jumpy. He reached for a wrench. Rubbed grit from the window and squinted his one good eye to look through plastic into the yard. Neither...
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I hope we're swinging back
Posted on Sat, 29 Jul 2023
I hope we're swinging back into the light. Maybe not yet, Maybe not ever. But the hope sings in your poem.
Read full commentPosted in "Murky Waters"
I guess we all see worthless
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2023
I guess we all see worthless coins sometimes. but to trade them for words and poetry is to create a new currency.
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death has a way or reminding
Posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2023
death has a way or reminding us not to eat sweaty cheese.
Read full commentPosted in end of the pier
it's a dog's life, but
Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2022
it's a dog's life, but sometimes it isn't. The transmigration of the soul takes many forms (so we're told). Why not a dog? Or a cat? Or a Tory? Too far, sorry.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Wish of Christmas
War and Peace, you'll need to
Posted on Fri, 02 Dec 2022
War and Peace, you'll need to saw my arm off. I hitchhiked through France, well, the Frrench bits, with a guy that had his arm in a sling. It was dead, but he couldn't bear to lose it. I understood that. I'd have been the same, Hoping for an arm(...
Read full commentPosted in Troy and Me (A Christmas Tale) Part 2
you never do know what
Posted on Sun, 15 May 2022
you never do know what enlightenment will be. Settle for the fish tea.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 28
life is a shock perhaps
Posted on Fri, 06 May 2022
life is a shock perhaps unplanned, but you've got the fight to stay that way here.
Read full commentPosted in wheels to rotors
Good question, most Prime
Posted on Mon, 18 Apr 2022
Good question, most Prime Minister are duirng the honeymoon period regarded as competent. I don't include Boris in that, of course. David Cameron gave us austerity, by us I mean poor people. He gave rich people even more riches. And then he gave...
Read full commentPosted in Pointless Boris (Part One of Two)
I think this is unlikely as a
Posted on Thu, 20 Jan 2022
I think this is unlikely as a Trump presidecy, Oops, that happened.
Read full commentPosted in BBC TV Listings, Wednesday January 21st 2032.
perhaps this year perhaps
Posted on Fri, 07 Jan 2022
perhaps this year perhaps next. in the end it's the end.
Read full commentPosted in Resolution
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