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Memento Mori
You’re frightened by time Last frolics of fading white lies Risky, holding facts You drop them from your dry lips Search for them on the floor...
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Sean Happens 11
‘You can’t kill The Spider as easy as that,’ said Miss Dill. ‘He was already dead in a way. He was born without a soul.’ Mr Martin pursed his lips. ‘...
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Sean Happens 10
Tiredness and fag smoke glazed Sean’s eyes. He was falling asleep leaning against the work surface, but he wouldn’t give into it or go to bed. His...
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Sean Happens 9
Mr Martin gave Sean a little nudge on the back of his shoulder. ‘Go on then,’ he said. Mum stepped out to meet him. ‘So this is yer little friends,’...
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Sean Happens 8
'He dropped me off around the corner from my house. I stood holding open the car door to prolong the moment, but I couldn’t think of anything good...
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mum is always best.
Posted on Thu, 08 Jan 2026
mum is always best.
Read full commentPosted in Gone But Not Forgotten
It makes me mad enough to
Posted on Sat, 13 Dec 2025
It makes me mad enough to write a letter to the Daily Mail about the segregation of schools. Nobody believes in anything any more. All children go to interdemonational nurseries or they're just left about street corners with their fags. In our...
Read full commentPosted in A Hare’s Breath 3 - The Accident
makes sense of a kind of
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
makes sense of a kind of sadness.
Read full commentPosted in The Day, Every Day
ah, GlosKat, I think I need
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
ah, GlosKat, I think I need an eye test. Ludwig Wittgenstein: What a picture must have in common with reality in order to represent it after its manner—rightly or falsely—is its form of representation. We see what we think we see, even if we don'...
Read full commentPosted in R&D 5
violence is believing it's
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2025
violence is believing it's necessary as you show.
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cheers TJ, who knows what
Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2025
cheers TJ, who knows what path we take? Not Abraham. Not me.
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I wondered where Pudgy
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
I wondered where Pudgy Maxwell's van went to. He might well have sold it to your dad. He'd drag two seats out of the pub, with a punter standing in the middle. Bit shuggly. But good enough to get you to the Celtic match. Pope John Paul II...
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aye and aye, sadly true.
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2025
aye and aye, sadly true. where are we noo?
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the poet in you, indeed,
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2025
the poet in you, indeed, Jenny.
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to be out and about is poetry
Posted on Tue, 02 Dec 2025
to be out and about is poetry to bring home.
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