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Tony hunch-shouldered, tethers himself like a human-shaped balloon on the edge of familiar things, the chair his da usually sits in, watching the...
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Tony doesn’t decide to go to school, that’s just where his feet take him. The class has already garbled morning prayer, sung the time table and moved...
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With no telly to watch, Tony changes quickly into his jammies, and because of the cold dives under the covers of bed. He sleeps clutching his book of...
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Angela nips across the landing and rattles the letterbox. Dermot answers, swinging the door wide in welcome. He’s wearing his old work coat and work...
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Jaz panting and out of breath runs uphill, the dark street a whetstone underfoot, and the unexpected urgency of the chase sobers him. It makes him...
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poor sap. wonder what mother
Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021
poor sap. wonder what mother will say.
Read full commentPosted in When Robert Left Helen
who is Mendes? congratualtion
Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021
who is Mendes? congratualtion on poem of he week. well deserved.
Read full commentPosted in Another Night On a Bare Mountain
He was right about the East
Posted on Fri, 16 Jul 2021
He was right about the East Indian Company and the British. Ironically, it's now China that is the most powerful nation on earth. Britain a spent power dwelling on its past.
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 33
we're all dreamers jenny, but
Posted on Wed, 07 Jul 2021
we're all dreamers jenny, but not all poets.
Read full commentPosted in Daydreamer
I'd say in Google's defence
Posted on Sat, 03 Jul 2021
I'd say in Google's defence it doesn't know me either. And I'm not sure if witers' retreat should have a possessive (Champions League doesn't.) I'd be suprised that even in such a fictional place any reader didn't recognise the uniqueness and...
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He starts laughin. We aw dae.
Posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2021
He starts laughin. We aw dae. Sometimes there’s nothin else fur it.
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I'd cut the last paragraph.
Posted on Thu, 24 Jun 2021
I'd cut the last paragraph. Forewarning of what is coming should be in subtext. Too much of a large gulp here.
Read full commentPosted in Disenchantment 26
black humour, the kind that
Posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2021
black humour, the kind that buries you. I like it.
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alter's head. is that a play
Posted on Fri, 18 Jun 2021
alter's head. is that a play on words or do you mean altar? Both works, but in different ways. Enjoyed.
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Yes, we are all in flux.
Posted on Tue, 15 Jun 2021
Yes, we are all in flux.
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