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Renaissance.
So it must have been after the birth of the Ku Klux Klan In the first, bright light, the spellbound hugged themselves In their fields of late-cropped...
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The Lost Manuscript 3
Dark was darker than death when you were younger. Light a flashbulb. No fat kids. No coloured kids, unless it was the black babies’ pictures you...
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the lost manuscript 2
He didn’t set out to be a slob. It was just easier not to care in a flat-footed way to wear the same clothes until they were like twins with an...
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the lost manuscript.
A self-confessed failure at writing. It made it easier if anybody asked, but they never did. Kittiwakes and guillemots were an orchestra for Damien’s...
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Atrocious
The phone rang. I was reading up in a cupboard. In the hallway, at the top of the stairs. It was full of books, and I’ve a lamp and desk, but it...
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War and Peace, you'll need to
Posted on Fri, 02 Dec 2022
War and Peace, you'll need to saw my arm off. I hitchhiked through France, well, the Frrench bits, with a guy that had his arm in a sling. It was dead, but he couldn't bear to lose it. I understood that. I'd have been the same, Hoping for an arm(...
Read full commentPosted in Troy and Me (A Christmas Tale) Part 2
you never do know what
Posted on Sun, 15 May 2022
you never do know what enlightenment will be. Settle for the fish tea.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 28
life is a shock perhaps
Posted on Fri, 06 May 2022
life is a shock perhaps unplanned, but you've got the fight to stay that way here.
Read full commentPosted in wheels to rotors
Good question, most Prime
Posted on Mon, 18 Apr 2022
Good question, most Prime Minister are duirng the honeymoon period regarded as competent. I don't include Boris in that, of course. David Cameron gave us austerity, by us I mean poor people. He gave rich people even more riches. And then he gave...
Read full commentPosted in Pointless Boris (Part One of Two)
I think this is unlikely as a
Posted on Thu, 20 Jan 2022
I think this is unlikely as a Trump presidecy, Oops, that happened.
Read full commentPosted in BBC TV Listings, Wednesday January 21st 2032.
perhaps this year perhaps
Posted on Fri, 07 Jan 2022
perhaps this year perhaps next. in the end it's the end.
Read full commentPosted in Resolution
anger and impotence. We
Posted on Tue, 16 Nov 2021
anger and impotence. We nullify outself as we look on at the slow-moving end ot it all. This is great. It captures how we feel.
Read full commentPosted in Drilling Out Blame
yes, our noisy ghosts are
Posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2021
yes, our noisy ghosts are often within, and found in the sin of dissociation.
Read full commentPosted in Esther Cox
watch, learn, pay attention.
Posted on Mon, 16 Aug 2021
watch, learn, pay attention. A mantra I wish, I wish, I could.
Read full commentPosted in Naples: balcony overlooking Via Firenza
group hug and the longest wee
Posted on Tue, 08 Jun 2021
group hug and the longest wee in history. Go girl. Great story.
Read full commentPosted in Pride
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