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organist and monkey
The organ, off-kilter as a bagpipe chord, begins the first hymn. Major keys and minor key dance around the usual dirge. Funeral music. The...
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Don't talk back
I slept through the Russian missile crisis when John F Kennedy called the Russian’s bluff and sent them homeward to think again. It was a simpler...
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I stole this poem from Vera
You cut a chrysalis just in case, kept the carapace on you. Tied a shoelace around the neck, the butterfly initials you never knew tattooed at the...
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Hardware Not Included
Clinically proven. I lived between rivers of drinking and islands of insanity. There were lots of reasons for it. But I bet you’ve heard them all...
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ABCtales Magazine and me
I got the new ABCtales ‘best of’ through the post this morning. I know you can download it, but I prefer paper, it gives me something to chew over...
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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
“Are you the Andrew Gumnerson
Posted on Mon, 02 Mar 2020
“Are you the Andrew Gumnerson [well, it’s close to my name] who wrote Escape from Alcatraz?”
#I'm sorry to have written to you Anderw Gummerson.
#p.s. this is great. i also escaped from Alcatraz and other council flats.
Read full commentPosted in On the Spectrum
rbs chairman £700 000 per
Posted on Sat, 22 Feb 2020
rbs chairman £700 000 per annum pension fund. ahem
Read full commentPosted in September 15th 2008
we all need to gather and
Posted on Wed, 12 Feb 2020
we all need to gather and tend as much light as we can.
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sad. but was it prayer (and
Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2020
sad. but was it prayer (and time) wasted?
Read full commentPosted in A Lesson In Life. Part Two.
I guess we read things into
Posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2020
I guess we read things into objects. Can't say I like Gordon.
Read full commentPosted in Gordon Ramsay, A Lesson In Life. Part One.
I guess we all worry that way
Posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2020
I guess we all worry that way and wolves come in many forms.
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a different generation, a
Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2020
a different generation, a different life. In some ways a harder life.
Read full commentPosted in Burkette Greene
lost some narrative structure
Posted on Fri, 07 Feb 2020
lost some narrative structure here. Compelling as it is, turned into a rant. You can't hate your reader for not knowing. Not experiencing. Teach us in truth by telling a story that resonates in our hearts. The simple truth I understand is most-...
Read full commentPosted in Recognizing a Hero In Addict (7 cont&8)
this is great. I enjoyed
Posted on Tue, 14 Jan 2020
this is great. I enjoyed reading it. I can see how so much training would make you incredibly fit, but, ironically, have such adverse affect on your bones. The killer line is it became drudgery. Just another way of making a buck. Amen to that. I...
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