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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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I stole this poem from Vera
You cut a chrysalis just in case, kept the carapace on you. Tied a shoelace around the neck, the butterfly initials you never knew tattooed at the...
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Hardware Not Included
Clinically proven. I lived between rivers of drinking and islands of insanity. There were lots of reasons for it. But I bet you’ve heard them all...
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ABCtales Magazine and me
I got the new ABCtales ‘best of’ through the post this morning. I know you can download it, but I prefer paper, it gives me something to chew over...
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Last Call
She clumped up the middle of Singers Road ignoring the pavements, damp and slippy with the mush of fallen leaves darkening pools against the wire...
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30 story in 30 days, you're
Posted on Thu, 24 Nov 2016
30 story in 30 days, you're having a fucking laugh! keep at it.
Read full commentPosted in BIG JOHN.
so many invisible days, in so
Posted on Sat, 19 Nov 2016
so many invisible days, in so many ways.
Read full commentPosted in No Hand to Hold.
the sweet and the sour the
Posted on Fri, 18 Nov 2016
the sweet and the sour the bouquet of forgotten flower, the aftertaste, that's what makes this poem so great.
Read full commentPosted in I don't really like Hardy's Legacy
yes, I agree, echo it is for
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
yes, I agree, echo it is for me.
Read full commentPosted in Echo's
a stout heart and a wet mouth
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
a stout heart and a wet mouth, right enough. But I don't like the start: 'Paidi’s hurled face of wrath.' I'd guess you'd have to put it another way to get the man and his moods right.
Read full commentPosted in CC 68: The Health of the Salmon
I really enjoyed reading this
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
I really enjoyed reading this. The only false note I detected was you saying you were 'socially withdrawn' I prefer the more striaghtforward, I was shy. Reminds me a bit of Jackie Kay going to the same kind of meetings, but for socialists, and...
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there's a lot of pain here,
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
there's a lot of pain here, brimmng and overflowing words that stain our minds and we have no refrain, because, to be honest, we do the same cruel things again and again.
Read full commentPosted in Do you?
a year is nothing, but
Posted on Fri, 04 Nov 2016
a year is nothing, but sometimes it is something.
Read full commentPosted in A Year
summer cloaking turns...yes
Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2016
summer cloaking turns...yes it's in the air.
Read full commentPosted in A Tree Branch
some interpretations of
Posted on Thu, 13 Oct 2016
some interpretations of -earth-history, I tend to agree with. What comes next? More of the same I'd guess.
Read full commentPosted in testament: beneath the collonades
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