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I have 67 stories published in
9 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 95172 times
and 34 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Mark Grist
My stories
Come to Peterborough!
Come to Peterborough! A place of unusual beauty With houses so cheap most don’t pay stamp duty Our team may be called ‘the posh’ but believe me they ain’t snooty
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I long to be on your mind
I long to be on your mind Like those celebrity heartthrobs that grind Their way through your thoughts All tough and action And I’m sure that I could offer satisfaction Like those guys
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A message worth inking out
At 17 years old I was called a ‘jitter’ in my home town Now ‘jitters’ were guys that were renowned for our frowns And our interest in the post grunge sound
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the boy who ruled science
Everyone remembered the scream. Red hot pain on cold white walls. That was the end of Toby. He was fourteen, wore orange Garfield glasses. The girls called him cabbage head.
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Why of adventures more than of green spectacles?
“We’re bored. You’re boring us!” The muses whine I explain that poetry isn’t all sex and drugs and rock n roll Their eyes darken. One turns on the television
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