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Steelie 15
The muffled rumble of trains arriving and departing, the continued hiss of steam escaping from locomotives follow them. Echoing announcements...
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forget me not
Limb by limb they say In that ordinary way Heart, diabetes and lack of breath That means death Best keep yakking in that slow way So you won’t wander...
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Steelie 14
Mole stands on the U-Bahn platform, his leg jiggling. The place reeks of sweat, damp woollen uniforms and thick coats pressed together, and the sour...
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Steelie 13
Brodie snatched Sharon’s phone from her hand. She’d been smiling and checking her message. He’d read them too. Before handing her back the blank...
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Steelie 12
The clack of the pool balls behind Sharon’s head, a metronome, marked the growing silence between them. ‘I better get back,’ she croaked, not really...
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ah words sometimes fall short
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023
ah words sometimes fall short, but you have risen to the challenge of raising the dead to something like remembrance.
Read full commentPosted in Mother-tongue
I hope we're swinging back
Posted on Sat, 29 Jul 2023
I hope we're swinging back into the light. Maybe not yet, Maybe not ever. But the hope sings in your poem.
Read full commentPosted in "Murky Waters"
I guess we all see worthless
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2023
I guess we all see worthless coins sometimes. but to trade them for words and poetry is to create a new currency.
Read full commentPosted in The thought of it
it's a dog's life, but
Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2022
it's a dog's life, but sometimes it isn't. The transmigration of the soul takes many forms (so we're told). Why not a dog? Or a cat? Or a Tory? Too far, sorry.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Wish of Christmas
War and Peace, you'll need to
Posted on Fri, 02 Dec 2022
War and Peace, you'll need to saw my arm off. I hitchhiked through France, well, the Frrench bits, with a guy that had his arm in a sling. It was dead, but he couldn't bear to lose it. I understood that. I'd have been the same, Hoping for an arm(...
Read full commentPosted in Troy and Me (A Christmas Tale) Part 2
you never do know what
Posted on Sun, 15 May 2022
you never do know what enlightenment will be. Settle for the fish tea.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 28
life is a shock perhaps
Posted on Fri, 06 May 2022
life is a shock perhaps unplanned, but you've got the fight to stay that way here.
Read full commentPosted in wheels to rotors
Good question, most Prime
Posted on Mon, 18 Apr 2022
Good question, most Prime Minister are duirng the honeymoon period regarded as competent. I don't include Boris in that, of course. David Cameron gave us austerity, by us I mean poor people. He gave rich people even more riches. And then he gave...
Read full commentPosted in Pointless Boris (Part One of Two)
I think this is unlikely as a
Posted on Thu, 20 Jan 2022
I think this is unlikely as a Trump presidecy, Oops, that happened.
Read full commentPosted in BBC TV Listings, Wednesday January 21st 2032.
perhaps this year perhaps
Posted on Fri, 07 Jan 2022
perhaps this year perhaps next. in the end it's the end.
Read full commentPosted in Resolution
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