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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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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.
Read full commentPosted in Waters
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.
Read full commentPosted in The Loanee - A Promising Future
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?
I've always wanted a tsunami
Posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2016
I've always wanted a tsunami you could fold up in your pocket.
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bit about writing books,
Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016
bit about writing books, writing block, finding a publisher and utopism. I particularly liked this idea: 'Power and competition in politics and business greed were sidelined and made unfashionable. Work was necessary but it was not to rule life...
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if you look through your
Posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2016
if you look through your fingers it seems very much like this world, but instead of space travel, simple air travel. that's a good thing to base the future on, being like the past, but with speedbumps. .
Read full commentPosted in Is Space The Final Frontier? Who Will The Man Of The Future Be? (Ch.13c)
I prefer the sun, but I guess
Posted on Sun, 27 Nov 2016
I prefer the sun, but I guess I'm not the only one. Without rain I fear makind would be history.
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