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on the driveway
neatly aligned carstwo garages full of junklives of consumption~ n.b. Time is limited for us all, a sudden excision from the daily whirl always a possibility, so what is it with garages full of the stale fruits harvested from sixty years, or so, of shopping? I put my hands up for an excess of books →
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on cocaine
on Northern Trains’ trainservice from Leeds to Blackpoolit was everywherethe stag party ladsCity fans going westwardBlackburn blokes’ day outclothed in fancy dressFreddy Flintstone is off his rocksCinderella’s stonedbutch ballerinatights, arms like a lock forwardgruff giggles, twitchythey’re sniffing it upin the disabled toiletoff the seat-back trayhere, there everywherethrough the Pennines, down the trackat each stop more →
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on land
as you learn the nameswritten, then how pronouncedhalls and manors emergeancient fishpondsclothed in algaeor claggy with weary leavesa moat, walls, parklandit becomes clearthis landwas once for the havesand the haplessits feudal formstamped into the lanesdiverted around groundsold metal fencingthat avoided the call updue to the lord’s protected occupationon the last remnant of greenthe stone crossscored →
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on moving
in forgotten, half-read booksI find a Paris Metro ticketHunter S. Thompson’s obituaryWith Gerald Scarf’s cartoonA Pompey match reportA blank piece of paper in the chapter devoted to George Herbert’s theological poetryand so many words, paragraphs, chaptersforgotten, over-written, wrongly rememberedstories now irrelevantre-worked by life itselftruth and truismserotica unable to match the real joyof making love with →
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on luck ii
Please, do not pretendI think this woo-woo stuff worksBut ‘Lucky Socks’ are back~n.b. Yep, trying anything and everything for a win atm.n.n.b. It was a 2-1 win!! 😊 CLP 19/10/2024 →
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Stand Up, Step Out
Sit stillEverything movesThat’s what you seeIt all moves around youYou want to ride the carouselSee the world?So stand upNow step outStand upStep outSit stillYou need to restYou’ve travelled farFrom village to cityCity to seaYou want to see over the hillDiscover moreSo stand upNow step outStand upStep outAnother breakfastIn a foreign caféNo looking backIt’s about what’s →
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on Ukraine
watching from the shoreI see the oceangather itself indraining the beachscrambling pebblescurling its liphurling itself forwardclawing away another stratumbreaking more groundeach crump of wavedespite its damned furymerely a precursorto the next formingin jostling ranks behindthere is only so much landthere is so much seawhat great resolve is neededto construct safe harboursecure the coastdecide what cannot →
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Night Angler
Has this bird learnedCarpark night lightsAre a boon to fishers?Hence moonlit return to perchWhich is also a fresh water fishAlthough Wensum waterIs possibly too freshIf you get my drift~ CLP 14/10/2024 →
Journey of Words 