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Most folk called her Pet
Pet held up and out a bent strip of cardboard, which was difficult to read in the rain, ‘London,’ block capitals, in blue marker pen. The sign...
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Le Cock: My Struggle.
I’m reading ‘The International Literary Phenomenon’, Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle, Book 5 , by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Cliché after cliché so it...
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ghosts not spirits
The pale green Audi with a ladder strapped to the roof jerks to a stop in the angled strip of road before the bus stop and the Irish Pope bursts into...
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the gothic line
Dinner begins with a closed door Smell of mince and totties Worse than the dentist’s chair Shut-up and sit over there Plate piled high as a rabbit...
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shitehouse to shitehawk: a user's guide
I jot things down. Sometimes I order them later, or they order me. Usually, I don’t. That’s called the first draft. It’s full of grammatical mistakes...
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nicely done, very visual and
Posted on Thu, 07 Dec 2017
nicely done, very visual and acoustic.
Read full commentPosted in Peeping at the Borrowed Plumes
Mark the might mouse is a bit
Posted on Tue, 02 Jan 2018
Mark the might mouse is a bit of a spellbinder. I hope he doesn't overdo it with the catnip.
Read full commentPosted in The Fairy Cats
we live we die and wonder why
Posted on Fri, 29 Dec 2017
we live we die and wonder why. I don't know, but nearer the end than the begining is a trend.
Read full commentPosted in The Search for Meaning
yeh, shades of snow and ice
Posted on Mon, 18 Dec 2017
yeh, shades of snow and ice and all things nice, but a message too, not long for you.
Read full commentPosted in The Snownan.
nice eyes don't grow old they
Posted on Wed, 06 Dec 2017
nice eyes don't grow old they just lose a bit of twinkle.
Read full commentPosted in You had such nice eyes
where are our friends,.
Posted on Wed, 06 Dec 2017
where are our friends,. indeed?
Read full commentPosted in Touch Me Not
nicely done. grown-ups are
Posted on Sat, 11 Nov 2017
nicely done. grown-ups are weird. That's why I refuse to grow up.
Read full commentPosted in Poppy
nice rhyme for halloween is
Posted on Mon, 30 Oct 2017
nice rhyme for halloween is ghostly time.
Read full commentPosted in All Hallow’s Day
I guess with hpyerbole and
Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2017
I guess with hpyerbole and hyperreality sometimes we forget we're not always right.
Read full commentPosted in Indifferent
the sun brings its own
Posted on Thu, 26 Oct 2017
the sun brings its own medicine and this seems ancient and modern. The phrase, 'for wounded, beyond make mend' is slightly clumsy. I know what you mean, but simpler with 'beyond mend'.
Read full commentPosted in Broken
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