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Barney Rubble
Barney Rubble is in trouble As I work at the Hubble In a double bubble Opposite the blue puddle That we often call home Barney Rubble is in trouble As I work at the Hubble Opposite the blue puddle That we often call home Barney Rubble is in trouble As I work in […]
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The God Creature
There are people in this world Who see things so clearly That it brings them to the edge of madness Peter was one of these rare people I had the privilege to be called one of his friends Which brought me a great deal of pleasure But I was still a train wanting to move […]
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In the Time of Monsters
The old world is dying The new world struggles to be born Now is the time of monsters This will last for one thousand years Antonio Gramsci
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Anna Without Anna
Either you run the day Or the day runs you I often think of this saying When I am relaxing Beneath the palm trees Watching this beautiful island Sink slowly into the sea Anna without Anna
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High Tension on a Piano Wire
I have travelled beyond my existence Cities now talk to me quietly In my silver dreams Only mad women can arrange dances And their books will drown as they bathe Certain dogs have three hearts I can hear them beating loudly In forty-five days this river will flood
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Days of Wine and Roses
On the day that Ronald McDonald Purchased a Rizla Rolling Machine I found a smiling stone on Walmer Beach The weather was mild for mid-December But the light faded before four thirty These were my days of Wine and Roses
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India Song
India Song is a 1975 French movie directed by Marguerite Duras My wife is also called India which is a coincidence but nothing more She was born in a pleasant house that overlooked the Gower Peninsula India is a curator of modern languages and creates sea glass rings in her spare time Like me she […]
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Otto and his Son
Since his wife had left him Otto Roope had lived with his only son Thomas in a town house in Canterbury which had pleasant views towards the cathedral Although he was nearing his twenty-fourth year Tom had shown no inclination to leave the family home This suited Otto well as Tom was agreeable company and […]
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Naked in the Storeroom
Many years ago when I worked in an ironmongers shop I used to go into the storeroom with a girl named Alice Vanessa We would remove our clothes as soon after the owner of the store left for lunch And stand quite still between the shelves of cleaning fluids and ready made brooms After about […]
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Drama by the Sea
Whilst I was in Folkestone I slipped into an obscure doorway f For a quiet fag As the day had been very stressful I hasd also been drinking too much And hated myseld for being so weak It was thwn that I notived a blue plaque Which noted that many yeaes ago Jimi Hendrix had […]