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the day before Christmas
Christmas Eve is the cruellest day. Doreen steps up behind an old guy stinking of fags and booze, sporting a baseball cap back to front, reddish hair...
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tender souls 2
Hallelujah said it wasn’t far and he carried their suitcase. But by the time they got there Ray’s feet hurt. Hoar frost made the slopes from the Old...
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angry-white man
BNP cynicism. First came the drunken Paddy. Then the grasping Jew. Smelly Paki. Polish Plasterer Romanian rats Who’s to blame for our nation’s shame...
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the fifth day
It was the fifth hour, after the day of rest, when in he went down. A great silence filled the trees and dust lay over all the land. In the shadows,...
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agonising questions
Pain we get free? No’ well? – some liberty! Get down on your knees and pray You don’t have to be that way It’s no easy becoming Freud Asking question...
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as[]well as some brooches,
Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2015
as[]well as some brooches,
to invisible, microscopic bacteria [he can't see them or sense them [cut]
he was in fact meditating [cut, you're telling the reader something he is aware of [cut?]
never[]mind
lovely, really...
Read full commentPosted in Jake Mutant - Chapter Two
poor Jeremy I think the media
Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015
poor Jeremy I think the media assault will make him the ploughed field. Good to see Labour finally having some policies that don't mirror tit-for-tat Tory policy eg Miliband's pre-election boast to go with the Tory spending cuts if elected. Fuck...
Read full commentPosted in For the love of Jeremy Corbyn
interesting, I was just
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2015
interesting, I was just thinking about something similiar (but different). How each generation weighs time. Trees by their weight of leaves offers the obivious analogy, are we so different?
Read full commentPosted in My Father's House
the sunset must have invaded
Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015
the sunset must have invaded the sky an orange.' I know what you mean, [the sun makes the sky glow orange] a little more care and you'll be right up there.
Read full commentPosted in Running on Desire - The Boat
there's a kind of coming back
Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2015
there's a kind of coming back I like, an echo of the past and present, the begining and end.
Read full commentPosted in The sound of my love
you carry on too Jeanne we
Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015
you carry on too Jeanne we just muck in and write as we do.
Read full commentPosted in dread-nought
feels real. a headache that
Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2015
feels real. a headache that binds all thoughts to hurry up and pass or let me die.
Read full commentPosted in Migraine
Reminded me a bit of Stephen
Posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2015
Reminded me a bit of Stephen King (Stand by Me and The Tommyknockers) it's certainly got that otherness that affects dreams and memory and turns a body. I don't think 'no one' needs a hypen. And I'm not sure about choosing 'initiates'. I love the...
Read full commentPosted in Relic
thanks vera and littlebit. I
Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015
thanks vera and littlebit. I acutally forgot I wrote this. I guess that photo of the wee boy in the sand, like the one in MyLi, of a little girl burning in Vietnam, makes you think, just a splurge of sound, on paper, no real sense. What makes me...
Read full commentPosted in dread-nought
I suppose getting it down on
Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2015
I suppose getting it down on 'paper' might help?
Read full commentPosted in Love Journal #1 Damage Control
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