What was I saying?oh yeah that reminds me.It’s on the tip of my tongue.You’ve been great to see me! I’ll get it in a minute.No, don’t give me any clues! It’s easy!I can’t believe I can’t rememberWhatever happened to thingy? Ok I give up.Oh yes. Of course. Silly me!Yes, I know, it’s been quite a …
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Like listening to Moonlight Sonata.Reflection without being distracted.Looking at nothing reflected in a mirror.Deep in thought without an idea enacted. Darkness of the night.Waking up before everyone.Minutes buried to candlelight.Lying in wait and fitting a silencer to a gun.
You’re a good egg, Lilibetand we’ve grown up with you all our lives.In an era not long goneLilibet you’re the one. Black or white, rich or poorElizabethans all.With your profile on all those coins and noteswho wouldn’t want to see you more? On an island in the seaand around the world spinning in spacenewspapers today …
On Pleasure Pielandislanders live life under a system called pie-in-the-sky.Plumbers fit pipe dreamsand statistics on counting your blessings are always high. Opticians sell rose-tinted glassesto see good things over the horizonand in every house, doors are fittedso that when one closes, another one opens. Every silver cloud has a golden liningand everyone’s glass is always …
you’ve got bills to payand you won’t be able toup to your giraffe in itsomeone’s having a laughand here’s the graph you can’t feed your kidsthey’ll go withoutback to scrooge’s surplus pop by halfsomeone’s having a laughand here’s the graph you’re strugglingto make ends meetthe rope for your graftsomeone’s having a laughand here’s the graph …
When I use my headto stick under the sandit’s a goody that beats evilwith comic heroes getting out of hand. miaow miaow miaowwow wow wowis a chorus to forgetbut one you’ll remember I bet. I got a low boredom thresholdbut I can’t be bothered to work out whatever that means.A tongue I can’t holdand a …
This place is outer spacewhere aliens arriveand they love slumming itin this exotic dive. Where they come from is pure,unspoilt, and as it’s always been.They beam images back homeand pose in concrete and green. They’re too clever for anyone hereand do their touristy invisible thingcos where they come from is pure,unspoilt, and as it’s always …
If someone had stoppedPope Gregory IX persecuting catsthe plague may never have happenedwith all those rampaging ‘cat’s away, mice will play’ flea-infested rats. Now, that’s my kind of cat-propaganda Netflix doc fact!But later, shooting my mouth off about it on a beach sunbed,the sunbathing papist friend next to me shoots backand googles what I’ve just …
Join me down the waterfront at The Prospect.Millions of memories going introspect.Well maybe not millions but quite a few.We’ll have a couple of pints or the proverbial one or two. The world spins round at such a pacewith its starter pistol at the start of its rat racethat before you know it, your day is …
Are you still therewalking the pier’s wooden boards?Sat in your deck chairwith your wonderful theatrical frauds? Anyone’s word counts for the number of letters in it.Scripts thrown into the sea.Armbands round little arms doing their bitto keep a silent movie pianist afloat above anonymity. The sawdust footprintsmatch those left in the sand.Under a punch ‘n’ …
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