Brooklands

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I have 292 stories published in 18 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 385738 times and 120 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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The Little Venice, Lebanese restaurant

Speed poem about the cafe near the British Library where I get my lunch.

Alchemy

The poet snubs millenia of science by turning lead into gold in only 16 lines.
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Tiny burgers at the Penguin bash

They had the plasma screen showing Huw from the BBC news with the sound down. It looked like the world was teetering because the footage was of missiles by grey-scale night vision. And then it was a map and North Korea glowing like a big red button. And we all felt a bit awkward or angry or distant and Hari Kunzru was there and Simon Armitage was drunk
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Nine One One

A friend of mine was asleep, two blocks away, they call them blocks, and he woke up and screamed at the window because it was so loud, the sirens mostly, the sirens sounded like the apocalypse, whatever that would sound like,

Hey man in rabbit suit

Hey man in rabbit suit, I know that you only have a small and gauzed wing-mirror-type view on the outside world ' you can see your paw in front of your face ' but hey man in rabbit suit, don't toss the fliers in the bin, tear off your skull and drop kick it at Primark ' you need this job for the money.

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