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Love story
My wee girlfriend had no neck, no shoulders, no breasts and untamed gorgon hair. Ali wasn’t really my girlfriend but lived beside me. She flicked her...
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Goatie 37
‘Tainted Love,’ I belted it out and gave it a kind of twist at the end for extra kudos that Mark Almond in his pomp couldn’t have managed. It helped...
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Goatie 36
Being tired, didn’t mean I’d sleep. I was always anxious about it, which didn’t help. I’d heard all the usual stuff about being too tired to sleep...
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Goatie 35
Another cop appeared juggling two steaming mugs of tea. He wore a short-sleeved shirt taut over a thick red neck and round ball face. He plonked a...
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Catching Up
Writing was not necessary No cause or even is Just something you did Made mistakes Learned to sneak away And play Games with different rules Grateful...
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Being human, what pain, what
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
Being human, what pain, what peril! I really liked this story, which is not a story, more a condition, a human condition. I remember Bucks Fizz. The blonde girls were very pretty. I can't remember if the song got to number 1, but it was a nice-...
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walking, dancing and prancing
Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2024
walking, dancing and prancing, words on the page, set the stage. (does sound quite far though).
Read full commentPosted in The Fish Hawker
weeds or the world-unite-and
Posted on Sat, 24 Feb 2024
weeds or the world-unite-and rise up.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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you are your camera.
Posted on Fri, 16 Feb 2024
you are your camera.
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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"
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