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Children's nursery rhymes from a future past.
Upperty nimby sat on a wall, Upperty nimby could not really fall, Because all the queens horses, and all the Queens men, Kept Upperty nimby from...
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The PIA
Teaching English in the desert from a work-in-progress...
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Political Correctness in America 4
In some senses, political correctness is not a liberal movement. It is also conservative. I don't know if conservatives have had any hand in shaping...
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An Extended Dialogue: Me and my (Screwed up) Conscience
Had a chat to my conscience the other day... we seem to be on totally different wavelengths.
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My Words to the German Folk Song - “Du, du liegst mir im Herzen” (You, you are in my heart)
1 st Verse: You, you, you live inside me; here, down deep in my heart; love, love; please don’t deny me. It hurts when we are apart. Oh love; my love...
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Superfattycalorificextrahalitosis
The gooey, bad blood of big Bob Britain moves like meat loaf through a straw, sizey bits of arterial fur break away and head for the pig valves and...
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Long hauled.
A trick of flight, the one where I am coccooned and fuselagenous hurled backward in time with bugger all sleep, the one that makes the last month a...
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WHITE ORCHID FIELDS.
Why rests your home amongst dead leaves of orchids In search of sustenance from rain Green fields which once stood in palatial residences Laid...
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Dear friend...
The sun’s heat was particularly humid in the open plan office, as though the windows were large magnifying glasses, the workers under inspection, the...
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Scented Dreams
She dreamt a dream flavored by the scent of his skin a delicious dream painted amber across her marred and frigid lips His skin was golden like a...
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An exploration of the definition of intelligence
So what is intelligence? It turns out it's not so easy to pin down. The science -fiction fable ”the flowers of Algernon” deals in a very realistic...
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Nefelibata
Nefelibata This sacred dream sky is my secret domain The realms of climbed clouds are my throne, And on dark nights and in December days I curl up...
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school photos 20
I thought being locked up in the ward would be like being in the nick at Hall Street. Pacing two and a half steps one way, sharp turn, three the...
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Tragic
I like to write tragedy poems and song lyrics but I've never experienced anything tragic until this year. I lost Mom in March, Dad in July and I'm...
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Daddy Monkey and the Piccolo
Well it all started because Daddy Monkey wouldn’t stop playing the piccolo. He was so pleased he’d found an instrument that made people dance, and it...
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Water Ways
Dust on my shoes, heat. Figures approaching, disappearing. These are my main impressions of London’s artificial waterways. I know best the stretch of...
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