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November
Two or three hours Are all I require To be able to sit here With a glass of wine And watch the sun set But you have stolen These pleasures from me
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Milo (L’ Age De Raison)
I was drifting on invisible seas Without direction My liberty was admired By some But was mostly misunderstood By my peers As I thought it might be Message from Milo – six copies of this poem were hidden in London yesterday – if you discover a copy please consider it yours
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Naked
I feel that I can be myself around you Anna You have seen me cry You have heard me fart You have seen me shit When you were in the bath I am such a bitch sometimes You have studied every inch Of my body with your tongue When I hate myself You make me […]
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The Narrow Gauge Railway
Yesterday I stood next to the rusting tracks of a narrow gauge railway It was no longer operational having been closed some nineteen years previously In my pocket I had a photograph taken when I was eight years old At that time this little railway was running at weekends and on bank holidays I […]
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Sergeant Swanley
Sergeant Swanley does all the talking But we do not particularly care As we have come here to enjoy the beach You are reading Blue Aegean Seas A book of poems written by Archie Leach Whilst Lucy and I are enjoying the waves The sea is rather cold for late October Although the […]
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The History of the Colour Blue
Too many people look backwards Instead of in a forward direction They are trying to rewrite history Which cannot be easily done I am currently writing a history So that I may further understand The History of the Colour Blue I have no hidden agenda My name is Zorg
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There was just no one there
It should not have happened on a day such as this As it was a hot summers evening But I was working the late shift at Sefton station Which was by now quiet after a busy day There were three more trains each running on the hour I was in my office when I saw […]
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The Haunting at Farringdon Station
I met Viola tonight Really I have not seen her for many years Come to think of it is must have been the summer of 1992 How is she As well as to be expected for a time traveller Really I thought she looked a bit tired and her coat was heavy Where did you […]
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white ship
white ship in motion on a silver ocean against a slate grey sky white ship on a silver sea reflects the blank grey sky
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The White Light of Margate
A gaggle of girls are sitting on a stone bench Watching the incoming tide I am aimlessly reading The Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism As I wander towards the Margate Sands You are collecting coloured sea glass Blue Green Green Blue Blue Green We are all bathed in the white light of the day
