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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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Wednesday Club
We yakked on about God and laughed at the devil. Really, it should be the other way about. I met the devil when I was nine or ten, but I blanked most...
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Tuesday Club
The Tuesday Club wasn’t what it looked like, older men in short and sannies panting and out of breath after playing three-a-side fitba on the wooden...
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I guess we all get that kind
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
I guess we all get that kind of forgetfulness, Jenny. It's the other kind that's the real worry.
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sounds like reality for many
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
sounds like reality for many and few.
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ah, we always come back for
Posted on Wed, 20 Mar 2024
ah, we always come back for our own. The moon lent its son.
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aye, not long forgotten, not
Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024
aye, not long forgotten, not long anything.
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sorry Scotland is full. It
Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024
sorry Scotland is full. It has been for a while. One-out-one-in policy. If you're English you only count as a tenth of person. Nothing personal. Just allowing for Thatcherism, stealing our oil and Brexit (to name the most recent). I'm actually...
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an avalanche of ideas. They
Posted on Sun, 17 Mar 2024
an avalanche of ideas. They'll make it through. I bet they do.
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Sad in so many ways. Needs to
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Sad in so many ways. Needs to be said, the madness. The gun laws. The madness of men that think they own women. Mysogny. Toxic cultures. Sparky Little Paula no more.
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Thanks Jean. Your stories are
Posted on Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Thanks Jean. Your stories are your memories. They have helped us understand, not what it is to be you--that would be impossible-- but what it is to suffer a progressive illness that will kill us. We all die. Thanks for your goodbye.
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wonderful in so many ways.
Posted on Sun, 10 Mar 2024
wonderful in so many ways.
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nature laughs. I smile.
Posted on Sun, 10 Mar 2024
nature laughs. I smile.
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