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I have 1205 stories published in 7 collections on the site.
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the honourable member for Witney

Best thinking comes from not thinking The proud voice is the loud voice Pontification of what need to be done The great nob-game of bob-a-job To keep...
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poet on the rack

Philosophers and poets discuss how it is to be More tree than tree Point of view fucks off to Timbuktu Imagination pickled on a straight line In...
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Land lubber

Only the sea contains the sea Laws of sensation Balance on moon beams Light burning in the turn Roll and crest and crown Crop of water healing below...
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the visitor

I kiss the ghost in the study, you have to wind down curved stairs to reach, pass a similar entrance, with a similar set of keys, and fly down...
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Love Cats

‘I never met Mr Hitler but he seemed like a nice man,’ said Mum. ‘I said Hiller Mum. Hiller!’ Mum wasn’t fazed by my outburst. ‘That’s what I said.’...
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1849 of my comments have received 1903 Great Feedback votes

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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. 

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Posted in A gathering of crows part 1

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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. 

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Posted in Pacha

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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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Posted in Pacha

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a whistful (and lustful)

Posted on Sat, 27 Feb 2016

a whistful (and lustful) passing

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Posted in The End

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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...

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Posted in My sterile prison cell. Life on a hospital ward

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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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Posted in The Everlasting Pie

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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...

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Posted in Doubt is my mistress

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sweet and not in a sugary way

Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2016

sweet and not in a sugary way. 

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Posted in Buster

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Time indeed, has no hold. 

Posted on Sun, 07 Feb 2016

Time indeed, has no hold. 

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Posted in My dead diary – Sunday 7th February

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lovely - and wooly thoughts

Posted on Sun, 31 Jan 2016

lovely - and wooly thoughts about love and caring - I like that. 

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Posted in SEVENTEEN (after Oliver Comins)

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