On the 26th of March 1944 a small group of German soldiers Were ambushed by a group of partisans in a forest near Near They were all shot to death and their bodies dumped into a nearby lake The youngest of these German soldiers was twenty-four years old His name was Otto Dann and he…

Hotel 33 actually has only twenty-eight rooms As five are not available for the use of guests Being store and overflow rooms The hotel gets is name from its distance from the sea Which is exactly thirty-three metres away I stayed there with my Japanese girlfriend in 2004 And again in the late summer of…

I have lost all my illusions If anybody finds them Please mail them back to me     Outlaw

There is currently a war Taking place in my head I do not recognise either side And no peace talks are planned     Outlaw

Now even on Sundays the beach is deserted  Still we will stare out to sea   This is a line from a Fellini movie I cannot remember its title Yet I had arranged a showing At the Cinema on the Beach   But nobody attended As the five young men had left the town  

Simon did I see you participating in the Boxing Day Swim Yes But you cannot swim and are terrified of water I learnt to swim last summer Do you swim well No So why did you participate in the charity swim I wanted to see Mimsy K in her bikini Why did you not spectate…

I will always be your lover Frank and Angela were lying on rough blanket in the room Where the old photocopiers came to die There were three of these machines against the far wall Apart from that the room was bare On its only shelf there were three bottles of powder half full And a…

Madness Sadness Badness   I am mad but at the same time sad and I am definitely bad   NoMad

At present I am suffering from a minor but uncomfortable virus Which consists of a cold and various aches and pains It is making me very tetchy and I feel that I want to take my misfortune out on something or someone It seems to me that when I was younger there were not so…

on colder days this feeling can be almost impossible but when the sun is warm and free there is not a better feeling than standing naked in the sea         Purple 2022