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Friday afternoon
No one stops to look. It’s a Friday. Everybody’s busy, Thinking about the weekend. The wind’s blowing intermittent rain And it’s set to be like this...
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River's up
Too much history
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Across a crowded room
Familiarity and contempt
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Never trust a writer
Or even someone who just writes
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I was barely aware of the
Posted on Fri, 29 Jun 2018
I was barely aware of the world, but I was aware of flower power. Great thinkpiece. It's hard looking back sometimes. If we have a 50th anniversary I'll be in my 80s. World keeps changing.
Read full commentPosted in Class of 1917 Reunion
Great, london_calling. Bare
Posted on Wed, 20 Jun 2018
Great, london_calling. Bare bones, but I like what structure you have used, especially the lifting of the safety valve. An ongoing war against stigma, I think. Like all wars, fortunes ebb and flow.
Read full commentPosted in The Iceberg
Can't argue with that.
Posted on Thu, 14 Jun 2018
Can't argue with that.
Ghostwritten, though.
Read full commentPosted in Vamos España
Was it Dickens who wrote
Posted on Thu, 14 Jun 2018
Was it Dickens who wrote "Three - one down with three minutes of normal time to go"?
Maybe it was Douglas Adams. Ford Prefect scored 2 in abnormal time and Zaphod Beeblebrox settled it from the spot with a dubious penalty.
Read full commentPosted in Vamos España
Totally got me dude!
Posted on Thu, 14 Jun 2018
Totally got me dude!
I'm enjoying the potentially hazardous news situation implied by "I heard he actually played..."
A bloke once told me Jesus chipped Simon whose name was Peter from 30 yards.
Read full commentPosted in Vamos España
I had Joyce as coach passing
Posted on Thu, 14 Jun 2018
I had Joyce as coach passing signals to Beckett in midfield. Allen "Hands" Ginsberg in goal.
Read full commentPosted in Vamos España
How lovely. And also tragic.
Posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2018
How lovely. And also tragic. A wonderful message from a whale. My only thought was the "at" in "query at the sky". Wonderfully balanced rendering.
Read full commentPosted in Where I Belong
Nice read, Richard. Hope you
Posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2018
Nice read, Richard. Hope you're well. Have a wonderful day.
Read full commentPosted in He Who Is Sent
Yes, there's something
Posted on Sun, 17 Jun 2018
Yes, there's something predictable about the administration of justice. I like the repeated line. It works well.
Read full commentPosted in All Rise
There's never no war. They
Posted on Sat, 16 Jun 2018
There's never no war. They just move it around.
Read full commentPosted in One hundred years
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