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By Dickens
‘Another one to see you Doctor,’ said the receptionist, her droll tone on the phone, giving me adequate warning. ‘A Mr McDermid.’ Shuffled feet,...
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huts second week, second day (first draft)
Our first formal class, critical theory in mental handicap nursing, takes place in the defunct maternity ward, in the old hospital. High ceilings,...
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huts second week (first draft)
Monday is Monday in anybody’s language. Black and wet outside and our miserable Monday weather seeps inside and ages me. I hunker down, bury hands...
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onion gloop
Confounded by myself Confronted by someone else So fragile So strong Carry on Carry on Internal menace External menace Clogs up the lungs Clogs up...
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huts first week
Wullie the Pole shouts me into the office. It’s just before three because I’m standing near the door counting the minutes as if I’m Houdini,...
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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.
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yes, I agree, echo it is for
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
yes, I agree, echo it is for me.
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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 The only false note I detected was you saying you were 'socially withdrawn' I prefer the more striaghtforward, I was shy.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.
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a year is nothing, but
Posted on Fri, 04 Nov 2016
a year is nothing, but sometimes it is something.
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summer cloaking turns...yes
Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2016
summer cloaking turns...yes it's in the air.
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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.
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noir always rains and grey
Posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2016
noir always rains and grey dayis n black and white in cinama pain, but here's to Gene, so long ago it seems obscene, but as you get older the frames get bolder and what stands true are the pieces of me and you.
Read full commentPosted in It Rains in the Movies Too
reminds me a wee bit about a
Posted on Sun, 04 Sep 2016
reminds me a wee bit about a girl that was taken to the doctors because she could never sit still. The doctor stuck some music on, and as they left the rooms, they watched her through a crack in the door. There's nothing wrong with her, 'she's a...
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