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By Dickens
‘Another one to see you Doctor,’ said the receptionist, her droll tone on the phone, giving me adequate warning. ‘A Mr McDermid.’ Shuffled feet,...
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huts second week, second day (first draft)
Our first formal class, critical theory in mental handicap nursing, takes place in the defunct maternity ward, in the old hospital. High ceilings,...
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huts second week (first draft)
Monday is Monday in anybody’s language. Black and wet outside and our miserable Monday weather seeps inside and ages me. I hunker down, bury hands...
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onion gloop
Confounded by myself Confronted by someone else So fragile So strong Carry on Carry on Internal menace External menace Clogs up the lungs Clogs up...
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huts first week
Wullie the Pole shouts me into the office. It’s just before three because I’m standing near the door counting the minutes as if I’m Houdini,...
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I've always wanted a tsunami
Posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2016
I've always wanted a tsunami you could fold up in your pocket.
Read full commentPosted in Her father was a thunderstorm
bit about writing books,
Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016
bit about writing books, writing block, finding a publisher and utopism. I particularly liked this idea: 'Power and competition in politics and business greed were sidelined and made unfashionable. Work was necessary but it was not to rule life...
Read full commentPosted in History Of The Creadds (Ch.13d)
if you look through your
Posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2016
if you look through your fingers it seems very much like this world, but instead of space travel, simple air travel. that's a good thing to base the future on, being like the past, but with speedbumps. .
Read full commentPosted in Is Space The Final Frontier? Who Will The Man Of The Future Be? (Ch.13c)
I prefer the sun, but I guess
Posted on Sun, 27 Nov 2016
I prefer the sun, but I guess I'm not the only one. Without rain I fear makind would be history.
Read full commentPosted in Rain third position
30 story in 30 days, you're
Posted on Thu, 24 Nov 2016
30 story in 30 days, you're having a fucking laugh! keep at it.
Read full commentPosted in BIG JOHN.
so many invisible days, in so
Posted on Sat, 19 Nov 2016
so many invisible days, in so many ways.
Read full commentPosted in No Hand to Hold.
the sweet and the sour the
Posted on Fri, 18 Nov 2016
the sweet and the sour the bouquet of forgotten flower, the aftertaste, that's what makes this poem so great.
Read full commentPosted in I don't really like Hardy's Legacy
yes, I agree, echo it is for
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
yes, I agree, echo it is for me.
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a stout heart and a wet mouth
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
a stout heart and a wet mouth, right enough. But I don't like the start: 'Paidi’s hurled face of wrath.' I'd guess you'd have to put it another way to get the man and his moods right.
Read full commentPosted in CC 68: The Health of the Salmon
I really enjoyed reading this
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
I really enjoyed reading this. The only false note I detected was you saying you were 'socially withdrawn' I prefer the more striaghtforward, I was shy. Reminds me a bit of Jackie Kay going to the same kind of meetings, but for socialists, and...
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