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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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see you later alligator
We know what we know. We watched the world grow. And yet! And yet! There is that debt. There is that debt. Knowing doubts, bend us true. We know what...
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a trumpet for a brother, a
Posted on Sun, 26 Feb 2017
a trumpet for a brother, a trumpet for a sister, my guess is your guess, is that the broom that sweeps may, indeed, sweep us all away.
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I know lots of stories about
Posted on Fri, 24 Feb 2017
I know lots of stories about drinking and drunks, some funny, some sad, some funny and sad at the same time. How do we reach honesty? That's a different story, and one which I'm not quite sure how it ends. I think you've had a good crack at here...
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I like that Phil. All writing
Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2017
I like that Phil. All writing is the Wizard of Oz pulling the curtain away. You know that because you do it too.
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if you don't know if it's
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
if you don't know if it's fact or fiction, then that's a good measure. Not that it matters. We're all fictional creations. Life catches us all. Death, last and forever.
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two storey. (American
Posted on Sat, 11 Feb 2017
two storey. (American spelling story). Giro? seems more British than Russian. I guess there's no hyphen in bar top. You don't need top anyway. Bar is sufficient. There's a jump between Putin drinknig and leaving that is muddled. 'Turning on old...
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She aimed a finger at my head
Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2017
She aimed a finger at my head, and slowly moved it forward until it rested on the gateway of my cursed recession. ' Descriptively, you know what you mean and I know what you mean after I read on, but maybe recession as a lead into baldness is...
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cheers Elsie, I guess the
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
cheers Elsie, I guess the house is like many others in which the man is king, the wive loyal servant, told what to think and what to do.
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juxtaposition of life and
Posted on Sat, 07 Jan 2017
juxtaposition of life and death, aye. Makes you think.
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sounds a wee bit like Harry
Posted on Sun, 01 Jan 2017
sounds a wee bit like Harry Kane and a mix of Alex Ferguson and Bill Shankley as the manager.
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christmas and new year number
Posted on Thu, 29 Dec 2016
christmas and new year number one, well done.
Read full commentPosted in Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Mourning?
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