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Boomer Noir

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2 mn read I’d felt as old and out of place as the Angus Steak House in Leicester Square, until fifty became the new forty, sixty became the new forty-five and my daughter Katie joked at her fortieth party, Gee dad, the way things are going you’ll soon be younger than me! I inwardly glowed with the glamour […]

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Last of the Summer Sun

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< 1 mn read Black-eyed Sue traipsed across the heath                                                                                     Facing the last of the summer sunIt kissed her face golden. I could see the fainttraceof her smileas she ripped to piecesthe chorus of a love songshe didn’t believe in. She mentionedthat you’d been around with a bottle […]

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Binary

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< 1 mn read Let us go to face extinction somewhere by the sea, like Frinton, Tenby, maybe, or, at worst, in a bungalow on the Yorkshire coast.   We’ll walk our old, arthritic dog and watch him crap and tell him off for balking at the absurd commands we make believe he really understands   then drag him […]

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Autumn Leaving

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< 1 mn read After the too long winter I want to drop to my knees in gratitude on April’s crocus carpet And when the sun stays up late in summer You’ll find me in some park or garden, unwilling to depart before the final embers are extinguished by the evening cool As squirrel-like, I feel compelled to hoard […]

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Tonight Old Friend

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< 1 mn read Tonight old friend I immerse myself in you Wanting you same as I always did When we were young and the violet Jacaranda fell carelessly in hazy blooms around our feet Later though we were still freshly blossomed; Both busy reaping the sky of stars, On occasion I fell into you, Carefully Detached and light […]

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Nosegay

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< 1 mn read i/ pity poor Dante he rides upon a rouncey Rocinante rears his inestimable neigh as fierce as any dray-horse caught in flagrante he makes the bouncey-bouncey inside the pantry downs ale-jug after ale-jug shag-hot hobble-de-nag glimpsed from the gantry Beatrice minus flounces a sweetest nose-gay against the jeers her ear-plugs white-noise as any Noh-play ii/ […]

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Number Crunching

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< 1 mn read Just do the maths, they say, as if you were failing to face up to harsh realities. Just do the maths – as if it was obvious to anybody with a brain. Just do the maths – they say, these young men in their smart suits with their dry eyes as if you hadn’t thought things through […]

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Sledge

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< 1 mn read In the warmest December of their long history he gave her a sledge as red as Christmas itself it waited in the hallway along with the snowballing gloves and the sleet defying hat for the snow that never came. It shone through a January of drizzle through February’s fog until the snowdrops pushed out their […]

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