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on Beale Street
camera wobblestrolley catches tourist beatdrunk? it ain’t me babe ~ CLP 29/09/2022 →
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on time
where blue suede shoes trodthey long since left the caféno scent left to track ~ n.b. The nice thing about The Arcade Restaurant is that, apart from a modest postcard, the proprietors don’t trade off the reputation of one of their many happy customers. More importantly the café has been up and running for 102 →
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on Ukraine
human rights abusedno excuse, who’s for this war?hands up everyone! ~ n.b. Referenda being used by occupying forces to skim over, or gloss up the rationale for creating a war. It’s been said that these exercises are no better than voting at gunpoint, CLP 27/09/2022 →
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on time
putting a face oncan’t hide what happens beneathSt. Louis’ broken heart ~ n.b. In a city with many elegantly carved superstructures that are all boarded up, this building in the city centre has been cleverly painted to look as if it has a facade carved from stone. It is merely make up that is beginning →
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on cash
I’ll buy you a mealbut I won’t just give moneyyou said you’re hungry ~ n.b. Talk me through that again. Hungry means ‘food’ right? A young man, in a desperate condition, scarred, nervous, tired and dirty asked for a dollar for food. I said I’d get him some food, (we were stood outside a hamburger →
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on Ukraine
they still have enoughcowards to push the buttonsheroes would refuse ~ n.b. Resistance to conscription in Russia is an act of great courage. For Russians facing the press gang, “Do you have a plan? Run; Hide; Fight,” Which is what public notices in US railway stations advise in case an act of domestic terrorism develops →
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on Ukraine
enough mothers knowRussian blood runs down drains toopuddles form on clay ~ n.b. There are reports that queues to leave Russia to escape conscription to the diminishing army are stretching for miles at border posts. CLP 23/09/2022 →
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