Autobiographical

Things that are totally true. 

Cherry

Its Only Life

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Its only life. We flowed down the broken street, feet dropping into holes in the battered, unrepaired, ignored road. Bars and more bars surround us,...

Barfly

I’m a barfly. In bars I fly. I slap tenners On the wet Bar top. People stand clear Waiting for me to flop. But I don’t drop. “Whiskey, double”, “Erm...

Just another night

What was tonight? Whiskey and water. Beer, Cigarette passes between lips. Smoke inhaled. Scared of the night. Afraid to leave, Afraid to stay. Lost...

Vomit City

Vomit City I was stumbling home the rain had turned to hail. Ahead staggered a woman Spewing in the gutter Looking very pail. So I lifted her from...

So I Hit Him.... Nature or Nurture

“So I hit him”! Catchphrase For the family. Dad hits lad, Lad hits anyone. Say the wrong word, Go on I fucking dare you! What did you say? So I...
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The Estate. Youth.

My youthfull years, which I escaped due to luck and a the love of literature that love gave me still goes on. The same scenes in pubs, and on Estates...
Cherry

Kaikoura New Zealand

When I lived in New Zealand there is a place of great beauty called Kaikoura where great humpbacks and Blue whales came on their vast journeys. Boats...

Sorry Love

Sorry Love. The band was shit! Its name disappeared. Gone from the bottom of drink soaked memory. I held a pint mixed. Half bitter half mild. I...

Lost Love

Lost love. From my sleep I saw a vision In the strangest Damned position. A bad condition. Damned by sleeping tears And subconscious fears I slept...
Cherry
Poem of the week

Don't Name Them.

Dedicated to all the Teens and young people on wards 33 and 32 Leeds LGI Teen cancer ward, which became our second home, and where we made friends...
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Cherry

It's only life. Autobiographical.

I've been writing short autobiographical stories, all true, and maybe one day i'll have my life in words. Its only life. We walked from a black...

Mind The Gap

Dancing in the gaps Dancing in the gaps… Going off the maps. Looking for direction Time in reflection. When up is down And down is lost. Spinning...
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Cherry

The shed smells like shit.

As a child my parents took me to Butlins holiday camp, maybe a few will see this, will have seen this. The shed smells of shit Its not a shed its a...

So long Nick.

I had a lifelong friend called Nicky. He drank hard from an early age, his parents letting him drink at fourteen, he had no chance. As a young man he...
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Fed up.

The British are a stupid race of people still sticking like slime to feudalist barons boots. We are a race of people who are constantly conditioned...
Cherry

Damn them.... a rant.

Today the 29th, 1979. It turned me and educated me about the insane "National Rifle Association" I(the NRA), in America. Today marks the anniversary...
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It's Only Life - A Short Walk Through Panama

Its only life. We walked from a black freighter with a crossbones at its mast und fűnzig canonen. We flowed down the broken street, feet dropping...
Cherry

Always the hands.....

Check the bolt Check the bolt For action Hands slip and slide Mud and sweat Sweat and mud “Alright mate” “Aye” “Alright mate” “Aye” “We’ll be alright...
Cherry

Hurricane force twelve

I spent many years at sea, 35 or so. One time we were caught in a force twelve hurricane in the bay of biscay. Our ship was 53.000 tons, but the seas...