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Awake
Almost the worst thing A face that no longer speaks Warfarin and medical wattle One that makes you weep Sloshing around is somebody No need for an...
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claptrap
Collecting a plastic medal on his 30 th anniversary. Clenched teeth and a rictus smile. The backslapping goodness of them all. Dry lips. Missing God...
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Renaissance.
So it must have been after the birth of the Ku Klux Klan In the first, bright light, the spellbound hugged themselves In their fields of late-cropped...
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The Lost Manuscript 3
Dark was darker than death when you were younger. Light a flashbulb. No fat kids. No coloured kids, unless it was the black babies’ pictures you...
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the lost manuscript 2
He didn’t set out to be a slob. It was just easier not to care in a flat-footed way to wear the same clothes until they were like twins with an...
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Absolutely. For Fairy Cake
Posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2025
Absolutely. For Fairy Cake read Crunchies. Faires eat then too. So they must be true.
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trippple
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
trippple like tipple. More than one. Like a burn to the sea or see?
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great story, not a shadow on
Posted on Tue, 11 Nov 2025
great story, not a shadow on the second shadow. bravo.
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ah, wow, delicate and tough,
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
ah, wow, delicate and tough, hard to braid and hard to breath. The things you know.
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ah, but no leaky teapots,
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
ah, but no leaky teapots, Turlough. Always that missing piece.
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in the annnals of wandering
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2025
in the annnals of wandering about fields field, I've never seen so much dedication. You deserve all the honours of the broken teapot. Long may your luminary reek. There hasn't been such dedicated tramping since the potato and toilet-roll famine...
Read full commentPosted in Turlough Ó Carolan's Farewell to Turlough Ó Maoláin
the newspaper nobody ever
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
the newspaper nobody ever read. Must be the Egyptian equivalent of the Sun.
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much I sadly find myself
Posted on Sun, 09 Nov 2025
much I sadly find myself agreeing with here. Backward steps for humanity.
Read full commentPosted in Victory In Europe Day 8th of May 2025 : Hollow Victory Celebration After Almost 80 Years of Success and Peace
ah, the haddocks are terrible
Posted on Fri, 24 Oct 2025
ah, the haddocks are terrible gossip when they've had a few pints of seawater.
Read full commentPosted in The Concept of Rain at a Jaunty Angle
ah, if death could make us
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2025
ah, if death could make us better than we are this is the cure.
Read full commentPosted in Why does it always rain in graveyards?
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