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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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A song for Europe - part three
We begin with our apologies The song that we hum - justify I’m not the only one Whose looks matter History in a jar Skull beneath the slit Tells us...
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the things that we buy and don't know why?
The thought came like a First World War telegram – he assumed that she’d thought his family were marvellous. His mother was short and plump as a...
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I like that Phil. All writing
Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2017
I like that Phil. All writing is the Wizard of Oz pulling the curtain away. You know that because you do it too.
Read full commentPosted in grimms31
if you don't know if it's
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
if you don't know if it's fact or fiction, then that's a good measure. Not that it matters. We're all fictional creations. Life catches us all. Death, last and forever.
Read full commentPosted in Dave Swakeley is Dying
two storey. (American
Posted on Sat, 11 Feb 2017
two storey. (American spelling story). Giro? seems more British than Russian. I guess there's no hyphen in bar top. You don't need top anyway. Bar is sufficient. There's a jump between Putin drinknig and leaving that is muddled. 'Turning on old...
Read full commentPosted in Worse Than Death
She aimed a finger at my head
Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2017
She aimed a finger at my head, and slowly moved it forward until it rested on the gateway of my cursed recession. ' Descriptively, you know what you mean and I know what you mean after I read on, but maybe recession as a lead into baldness is...
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cheers Elsie, I guess the
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
cheers Elsie, I guess the house is like many others in which the man is king, the wive loyal servant, told what to think and what to do.
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juxtaposition of life and
Posted on Sat, 07 Jan 2017
juxtaposition of life and death, aye. Makes you think.
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sounds a wee bit like Harry
Posted on Sun, 01 Jan 2017
sounds a wee bit like Harry Kane and a mix of Alex Ferguson and Bill Shankley as the manager.
Read full commentPosted in The Loanee - A Promising Future
christmas and new year number
Posted on Thu, 29 Dec 2016
christmas and new year number one, well done.
Read full commentPosted in Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Mourning?
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...
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