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little Hiroshima in my head

By celticman on Mon, 20 Jul 2015

Little Hiroshima in my head. Up in the air Single self fractures and disintegrates Leaving life too late Making rubble of the past A future that will...

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huts 2 (rewrite)

By celticman on Tue, 14 Jul 2015

'I'm looking for Ailsa ward.' I speak too quickly, trying to sound as confident as him, almost stuttering. But if I stuttered I would have died. The...

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huts 1 (rewrite)

By celticman on Mon, 13 Jul 2015

The security guard with a pencil moustache, slides open the window of the lodge at the hospital gates and addresses me as ‘sir’. I’m given directions...

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the case for the prosecution

By celticman on Sat, 11 Jul 2015

Every morning Papa Adams opened early to catch workmen before they started the early shift in the yard. He pushed her belly out like a pram and...

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all's well in that flag

Posted on Mon, 22 Jun 2015

all's well in that flag-waving hell, some little grief that runs too deep, or something similiar your may say, but we live to fight another day. That's a ryhme crime!

Posted in Berkeley (The Californian Tragedy)

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the dead have all the good

Posted on Mon, 22 Jun 2015

the dead have all the good lines and it'd be mad not to enjoy it.

Posted in Dan's Dead

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to really suffer it must be

Posted on Wed, 17 Jun 2015

to really suffer it must be brocolli. It's green. It's mean. It's obscene. But it's high in something or other. Chocolate is the devil's spawn. I know which way I was born.

Posted in A Medal!

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wonderful winding ways and

Posted on Fri, 08 May 2015

wonderful winding ways and finding your way home. An interesting journey or pilgramage the purpose of which is not clear, but it doesn't matter, with each step something gives.

Posted in Camino 16a – 3 October 2014

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interesting fairy-tale type

Posted on Sun, 03 May 2015

interesting fairy-tale type story.

Posted in The Ravens of Portobello

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the wonders of science in a

Posted on Fri, 01 May 2015

the wonders of science in a kind of frankenstein way. Orginal and entertaining.

Posted in Recluse

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A nice beat to your poem and

Posted on Mon, 27 Apr 2015

A nice beat to your poem and some great imagery. Well done. Should be sung.

Posted in CITY

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evernow is to be the person

Posted on Sun, 12 Apr 2015

evernow is to be the person we want to be. Lovely.

Posted in Forever frozen on the flipside of the night.

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family worries, how we scurry

Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2015

family worries, how we scurry to and fro from that worry.

Posted in Cinderellas Have Stubble Too

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A stor[e]y below

Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2015

A stor[e]y below

so the journey begins. Not sure why anyone would volunteer their child for sacrifice. The story of a lottery and sacrifice for the good of the land is more common.