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the country of the poor
The country of the poor is where I stay No barbed wire to keep you away Mark in your die-ary Persona no grata gone that way They have no alibi That...
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grimms22
Tony is lying in bed sleeping. It’s a Saturday, no school, and a long lie. But he hears his Da arguing with Geordie the milkman outside the front...
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Grimms21
Snow breezes into the close, but turns to rain. Angela trails behind Pizza Face and Tony. Duffle coat hoods up, sucking in cool air, and a trio of...
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grimms20
The fog lifts from the tops of the buildings leaving them stranded in light rain. By the time Dermot gets back to his close he spots pedestrians...
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grimms19
Dermot picks up Angela and carries her into his wee boy’s room. His son, a step ahead in the lobby, slips into the room picks up his book of fairy...
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I guess you covered all the
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
I guess you covered all the bases, but mother's know best and what would your mother say?
Read full commentPosted in Happy Mother's Day
all of us would-be writers in
Posted on Fri, 20 Mar 2020
all of us would-be writers in our garrets speakig in cliches and thinking the world will end and saying, 'I told you so?' where are we now?
Read full commentPosted in Unprecedented
sun and crocodiles, what more
Posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2016
sun and crocodiles, what more could a story need?
Read full commentPosted in Mwambeshi Memories
poets know how to wait.
Posted on Tue, 17 Mar 2020
poets know how to wait. Sometimes a word's not too great. Then our foolishness does abate. Stanzas await.
Read full commentPosted in To wait
thanks for reading, your
Posted on Mon, 16 Mar 2020
thanks for reading, your praise is bountiful (oh, dear-sorry).
Read full commentPosted in The Bountiful
build car parks everywhere. A
Posted on Fri, 13 Mar 2020
build car parks everywhere. A parks a park. I guess we've put them on hold for now.
Read full commentPosted in Motorway City (Rock'n'Roll will never die)
interesting post.
Posted on Sat, 14 Mar 2020
interesting post.
Read full commentPosted in Does Anyone Know If There Is A Hotline For Alien Abduction? I'd Like To Request One. We Have Lost Our Collective Minds.
sweet and sour, but a miracle
Posted on Wed, 11 Mar 2020
sweet and sour, but a miracle of loving.
Read full commentPosted in We Grow
I like this very much. If we
Posted on Tue, 10 Mar 2020
I like this very much. If we didn't feel any pain, or emotion and thought ourselves always right and never wrong, then we'd be Donald Trump.
Read full commentPosted in Imagine if we Didn't Feel Pain
Lovely poem, I guess we never
Posted on Wed, 04 Mar 2020
Lovely poem, I guess we never learn and when we return to the earth we simply are.
Read full commentPosted in Albion
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