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Ambush
If you don’t get by Don’t ask why Maybe next year Shift your feet Move on Can’t you see? Work harder Become like me Cleanse the dust Sunny side up...
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fix you 3
Back at base, doors scanned and measured Inspector Allan’s approach and let him through. Office walls ebbed and flowed and doubled as free-floating...
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toxic bubbles over Manchester
Heat febrile facts—folly blooms Gather the witch’s stool A fiend inspired Little potions, little notions, little imps Shrink chaos and sell the jar...
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Easy Tiger.
‘Easy Tiger,’ Archie said, swaying and backing away towards the living room door. He wasn’t sure how a ten-foot long Bengali tiger had squeezed into...
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quickie
I’d a bad night. The guy upstairs had a burst pipe on Tuesday, which he didn’t know about. Next thing it’s Thursday, the ceiling comes down, and I’m...
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a murder of crows. Yeh, I
Posted on Mon, 21 Mar 2016
a murder of crows. Yeh, I understand the symbolism.
Read full commentPosted in A gathering of crows part 1
that's interesting. Einstein
Posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2016
that's interesting. Einstein postulated time and space as being the same (but differrent). I did wonder about the left-handed humming bird.
Read full commentPosted in Pacha
I guess apocalpytic. When I
Posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2016
I guess apocalpytic. When I googled pacha the defintion was some kind of disco. That would certainly put a different meaning on your poem.
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a whistful (and lustful)
Posted on Sat, 27 Feb 2016
a whistful (and lustful) passing
Read full commentPosted in The End
I don't want to be
Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 2016
I don't want to be politically incorrect, but to state the obvious in language bluer that Dame Tory something or other's hair, would be an impossibility. But I guess that's just part of the story. A place no one wants to be - and you're reporting...
Read full commentPosted in My sterile prison cell. Life on a hospital ward
each bite of the pie and a
Posted on Fri, 19 Feb 2016
each bite of the pie and a different lie. There's poetry in those woods. I'm sure they are misunderstood. A parable of a poem in which to our great shame, our masters those that own the pie, are vile enough to know that eating poor people is the...
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I doubt I understand this,
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2016
I doubt I understand this, but I don't suppose that's such a bad thing. There's nothing malevolent about it. The woman in the black-and--white photograph is pretty. I'd guess from Sim's stories this is a family member. I'm not sure what one part...
Read full commentPosted in Doubt is my mistress
sweet and not in a sugary way
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2016
sweet and not in a sugary way.
Read full commentPosted in Buster
Time indeed, has no hold.
Posted on Sun, 07 Feb 2016
Time indeed, has no hold.
Read full commentPosted in My dead diary – Sunday 7th February
lovely - and wooly thoughts
Posted on Sun, 31 Jan 2016
lovely - and wooly thoughts about love and caring - I like that.
Read full commentPosted in SEVENTEEN (after Oliver Comins)
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