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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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a loud whiisper is an
Posted on Fri, 04 Jun 2021
a loud whiisper is an oxymoron. But I know what you mean. Choose whiisper or loud. Not both.
moonlight doesn't trickle.
great start, plenty of foot-to-the-floor action. And the question of what they needed to steal and why remains...
Read full commentPosted in Don't Look Back
Blade Runner was certainly
Posted on Tue, 01 Jun 2021
Blade Runner was certainly better than the book. They tended to be prescient, but shit. Brought up o a diet of Star Trek, this is one of the great monolgues (not in the book). I'm rambling. Great poem.
Read full commentPosted in Roy Batty (Tears in Rain)
a happily unhappy story with
Posted on Sat, 29 May 2021
a happily unhappy story with an unhappy ending. Here's were we say, older and wiser, but life as you've shown is rarely that simple.
Read full commentPosted in The one that got away
bowl of fruit analogy works
Posted on Fri, 28 May 2021
bowl of fruit analogy works well.
Read full commentPosted in Alternatives
if we get the truth, then
Posted on Thu, 27 May 2021
if we get the truth, then that's win-win. Certainly doesn't happen in politics, but maybe in cat patrol.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 10
you gave me the jitters. I
Posted on Tue, 25 May 2021
you gave me the jitters. I thought Trump was back, no longer barred from Facebook and Twitter and returning to the land of his mom's birth. Thank god it's fiction.
Read full commentPosted in The Sure Yank Redemption
I'm never sure when a poem's
Posted on Mon, 24 May 2021
I'm never sure when a poem's a poem, but as an elegy to the past- yeh, love it.
Read full commentPosted in When We Were Young
it's funny who we are is what
Posted on Thu, 13 May 2021
it's funny who we are is what we are, your mum in bloom as a flower lover.
Read full commentPosted in Capturing Garden Memories
not a fan of the Royals. But
Posted on Fri, 21 May 2021
not a fan of the Royals. But hey, loisng the internet is a royal pain.
Read full commentPosted in The Internet Is Finally Restored (By An Angel) by Alfred N.Muggins
I guess everyone is a poet or
Posted on Fri, 21 May 2021
I guess everyone is a poet or peasant or both.
Read full commentPosted in In Conversation With Bears
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