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on payday
all those hours used upwhile outside weather happensmeaningless tokens n.b. Herzberg was right, hygiene factors, such as the work environment and pay, are nothing more than satisficers. I look at my salary statement and think, I am giving up living for this, just so I can afford to live? ~ CLP 20/11/2021 →
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on morning
too soon in my viewnight slipped off without askingstealing dreams of you ~ CLP 07/11/2021 →
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Malta
The wedding was held late on the Saturday afternoon. The church bright from the low sun beating through the open west door, was a place of calm reflection as the guests waited for the bride’s arrival. A wedding held after the bulk of the day has been spent by attendees swimming and sunbathing, followed by →
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Café
If you’re ever in that city I can recommend a reassuringly French restaurant below the station. It was the one he’d thought of first having left the bookshop with a collection of short stories by Maeve Kelly. An uncertain pause at a crossing to scan for traffic, led him to spot the art-deco whorls, carved →
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daylight robbery
this is oursthe canvas that fills with cumuliwhere delicate cirrus decorates our moonwhere Sun drags its heat from dawn to duskthe venue of Venus, the field for Marswhere Saturn plays perpetual hula hoopdance floor of Jupiter and its spinning jewelsbackdrop for all our starsthis is our space you build inconcreting our viewdamping our daysdarkening our →
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Last Minute Winner
a shot smashed in goalrelease of all frustratedtribal emotions ~ CLP 11/09/2021 →
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Oh! Mothers
it is said childbirthis the most painful of painsbut not after this ~ n.b. Sons, brothers, uncles, lovers, husbands, fathers, friends. Young men, rest in peace. CLP 29/08/2021 →
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Oh! Taliban / I.S.
’tis the devil’s workusing human bombs to killperversion of faith ~ n.b. pain old as mountains never-ending series CLP 26/08/2021 →
Journey of Words 