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In Closing
Years roll down your face – historic Hysterical Pack a paunch to your gut A hundred billion neurons die Now you know why Diet You what-the-fuck...
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10 Near Death Experiences (but there's only 5 NDEs because I'm still alive).
Ten near-death experiences. I don’t remember this NDE, but I’ve got reliable witnesses lined up to testify, although not on me, that it’s true. I was...
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Ambush
If you don’t get by Don’t ask why Maybe next year Shift your feet Move on Can’t you see? Work harder Become like me Cleanse the dust Sunny side up...
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fix you 3
Back at base, doors scanned and measured Inspector Allan’s approach and let him through. Office walls ebbed and flowed and doubled as free-floating...
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toxic bubbles over Manchester
Heat febrile facts—folly blooms Gather the witch’s stool A fiend inspired Little potions, little notions, little imps Shrink chaos and sell the jar...
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Reminded me a bit of Stephen
Posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2015
Reminded me a bit of Stephen King (Stand by Me and The Tommyknockers) it's certainly got that otherness that affects dreams and memory and turns a body. I don't think 'no one' needs a hypen. And I'm not sure about choosing 'initiates'. I love the...
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thanks vera and littlebit. I
Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015
thanks vera and littlebit. I acutally forgot I wrote this. I guess that photo of the wee boy in the sand, like the one in MyLi, of a little girl burning in Vietnam, makes you think, just a splurge of sound, on paper, no real sense. What makes me...
Read full commentPosted in dread-nought
I suppose getting it down on
Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2015
I suppose getting it down on 'paper' might help?
Read full commentPosted in Love Journal #1 Damage Control
slight breeze and a hint of
Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2015
slight breeze and a hint of danger in a leisurely lie.
Read full commentPosted in Thoughts on a Rooftop
thanks Rob, I'd guess I'm
Posted on Mon, 20 Jul 2015
thanks Rob, I'd guess I'm held in such esteem because I've been here longest. I must admit to writing as much rubbish as the next man (or woman), but I'd also guess I've lucked in that it's the first you've read and you like it so much....
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tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,
Posted on Fri, 17 Jul 2015
tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, might never come, poor today, but rich in another way.
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that's the truth, truth,
Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2015
that's the truth, truth, Nothing I can say, but the world doesn't have to be that way.
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death is never far away. Not
Posted on Tue, 07 Jul 2015
death is never far away. Not us we pray. But for a moment we lie and watch the bird of prey fly by. Lovely.
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excellent, fast paced with
Posted on Thu, 02 Jul 2015
excellent, fast paced with characters that stand out and great ending. bound to be trouble. Ideal for the dealer.
Read full commentPosted in Chapter Three
eighteen, bursting with life,
Posted on Thu, 02 Jul 2015
eighteen, bursting with life, when you believe your a man but just a boy, chained to the grass, forever, or until forgotten. Sad. Funnily enough a guy reversed in a van today and shouted my brother's name. he thought I was him. He's dead, of...
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