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Poems from Gravesend
Sweet Spot A guy walks into a sweet shop He recognises the girl Behind the counter As an ex girlfriend He asks her If her sweet spot Was still in the same place I do not think that joke is funny In some ways it is offensive You assume that it was a joke Does […]
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Le poète Villon
On the final day of the winter A white envelope fell from my door Fragile do not bend was written crudely Next to my address which had been misspelt It contained three black and white photographs Which to my great surprise showed Miriam and Julie In what appeared to be a bar in Glasgow On […]
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billet retour
I no longer thought I was under surveillance My travels around the city were my own And the apartment opposite had been vacated But Julie who I did not totally trust had not returned Her superior assured me that she was back in France And was engaged in a police operation Which he could not […]
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cinq à sept
I visited the Bar Guillemin At least once a week It was where the off duty cops Would hang out when on active duty My appearance had changed greatly Less chaotic I was now well groomed An office worker waiting for his lover It was whilst chatting with some cops That I found out that […]
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Je Suis Fatigué
I found myself asleep On a busy railway station A woman who resembled my wife Was placing her damp washing Into a large plastic basket I asked her what she was doing But she did not Or chose not to hear me A female student From the local university Is now sitting next to me […]
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Le Sang des Innocents
Julie has been invited to a Police Conference Which will take place in the cities Of Edinburgh and Glasgow in two weeks time Although this event was planned many months in advance It has left me with an uneasy feeling That all is not what it seems to be continued
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Mauvais Sang
I have been in a relationship With a female cop named Julie Since March of last year She has a passing resemblance To my sister Yvonne Although she is much taller This said I am not totally easy About my relationship with Julie As I feel that I am being monitored The couple in the […]
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La Rupture
I married Miriam on a whim When we were both seventeen Which was much too young We separated two years later Although we remained friends Miriam moved to Glasgow in 2017 We did write but her letters soon faded And stopped entirely without any reasons given I knew that she had been teaching At a […]
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Nantes
Yvonne was last seen on a security camera At Nantes Railway Station She was wearing a primrose dress And her tired looking baseball boots My sister was on camera For about two minutes And then walked out of range to be continued
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Le Sang des Autres
My sister Yvonne had been missing For just over six weeks When bloodstains were found On and adjacent to a railway track In North West France But there was no trace of a body As many assumed That there had been an accident The blood was identified As being identical to my sisters group And […]