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the ten-minute bore
Christmas-Eve was a big thing in the Blaksketts. We are at the proud tip of a long peninsula leading to nowhere. You had the Christmas lights on...
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Tuesday Afternoon.
Swat away the murky day Clasped hands upwards to pious heaven Exchange it for sniggering and hee-hawing Sharp hinterlands and hard-ons Feet that can...
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Sometimes forever
I wore a beanie beneath another two-tone wool hat. The colour of my hair was a snapshot of fashionable black and white. The Weird Fish logo and the...
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unkissed
Many my days and many my tomorrows Until you no longer remember me in your prayers Shame burns away our ignorance and confusion Some unholy night’s...
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Twosies or Threesies
I said to Archie, ‘But you could get put up against a wall and shot’. My wee brother was standing huddled beside us in the close, out of the wind and...
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seems too bad to be true, but
Posted on Sat, 24 Feb 2024
seems too bad to be true, but we all know. Some choose not to see.
Read full commentPosted in whispers.
wow. I'm not a robot. I'd
Posted on Fri, 23 Feb 2024
wow. I'm not a robot. I'd quite forgotten about her daughter, Annie. I'm a doomonger too. Nothing makes me happier than doomongering. But I've got those crampons on, I'm left-wing of the eat the rich variety. Donald Trump was always too much for...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you...part 20
I think I said the last time,
Posted on Tue, 20 Feb 2024
I think I said the last time, no spoons, but probably seasons and football is how my life was measured. Fling hatred into the hat and you've half a story.
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sadness and anger and grief
Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024
sadness and anger and grief are bullets enough for any gun.
Read full commentPosted in Killing the killers
you are your camera.
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
you are your camera.
Read full commentPosted in Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
how may days sadden memory?
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
how may days sadden memory? slowly and then all at once.
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we are holograms. not one
Posted on Tue, 13 Feb 2024
we are holograms. not one person, but many people.
Read full commentPosted in "Life is but a Dream"
I'm reminded why NATO came
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
I'm reminded why NATO came into existence. The threat that the USSR with many of its divsions intact and battle ready outnumbered Ally forces. Stalin's forces were seen as capeable to sweeping across Europe. Hence the need to spend money and make...
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seems all too real.
Posted on Sat, 10 Feb 2024
seems all too real.
Read full commentPosted in Just like starting over
there is a hollowing out of
Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024
there is a hollowing out of the middle-class. the working-class is already fucked. the centre cannolt hold?
Read full commentPosted in Productivity is Dead
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