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Trigger
Homes built by spread sheets Sterling flows half-level to half level Splitsection soundaspace Stuck-up tower blocks. Designed by gods Jean or Jacques...
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thank-you notes
I wrote thank-you notes as a child. A thick HB3 pencil in my chubby mit. The pencil sharpener on the teacher’s desk, head height, was a big thing...
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Bernie the bolt.
I got a text message on the way back from Dalmuir Station. I checked my phone. Saw it was from Bernie. “Cm up & see me,” it read. His flat was...
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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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a saw-toothed landscape yet
Posted on Sat, 19 Aug 2017
a saw-toothed landscape yet something slightly scary but a beauty shinies through.
Read full commentPosted in Un Dia en Las Palmas
the seasons lead us and we
Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017
the seasons lead us and we follow on drfiting through time.
Read full commentPosted in Seasons
yeh, kids stuff and their
Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017
yeh, kids stuff and their little ways.
Read full commentPosted in Tapper
a joy to the heart indeed.
Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017
a joy to the heart indeed.
Read full commentPosted in Amazed
There are more people who are
Posted on Fri, 11 Aug 2017
There are more people who are homeless and the same amount of the beds. [deled the beds. egMore homeless and the same number of beds
a familiar tune Elise, less money which need to go further, but doesn't. Wages drop and some corporation...
Read full commentPosted in 2002-05 My memories of working at a hostel for homeless men
summer in essence.
Posted on Sat, 24 Jun 2017
summer in essence.
Read full commentPosted in Summer Thrills.
nature's grand design, right
Posted on Sun, 18 Jun 2017
nature's grand design, right enough.
Read full commentPosted in The Ghost Queen.
sometimes I rub against my
Posted on Thu, 15 Jun 2017
sometimes I rub against my ignorance and give it a shine. I know this. I know.
Read full commentPosted in Strange and Familiar Faces
the god paradox. Man can be
Posted on Wed, 17 May 2017
the god paradox. Man can be searching for something. I've no answers
Read full commentPosted in A Different Kind of Prayer (Part 2)
Fathers are a strange breed.
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
Fathers are a strange breed. I didn't know mine either, even though he was nominally there when my mum brought us up. I take after my father, of course.
Read full commentPosted in Shlamek
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