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Another dodo moment: impossible for homo sapiens to avoid making itan all-ticket spectacular,one to capture for the memory, to savour, as it were, wit..
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Step outside today and,penetrating like neuralgia,worsening by the year,the cold air brings to mindsomething far more chillingthan Arctic winds,or ice..
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White-coated greetings,stinging questions,back with the morning,drone straight at me,then swarm past,turmoil in their wake,a whirlpool of noise,muddyi..
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Cross-country saved the pitchesin winter, fair enough,but made us intellectuals -us express tail-enders -miss the first bus after school.Three minutes..
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Still here, still in my pyjamas.Been reading your online poems.Only just made my second coffee.Retired neighbour walking past my house,upright as ever..
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(In Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London)His mother had done her best to keep his mindon the painting they’d started together,..
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When is an uncle not an uncle?
Answer: when he’s your auntie’s husband
and she’s your dad’s sister
so I must have some o..
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In those days there was snow when the postman trudged up the pathon Christmas Day in Liverpoolwith parcels in brown paperfrom aunts I didn't knowin Gl..
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Waking us up in the nightthe cat we were drowning, is a baby under the water, and the pair of voicesbubbling through the wallare frantic divers, cradl..
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One of the Forgotten Army.Classics was hard, coming back.Stood the seniors at the rear,his beady eyes smoothed the rows,Elvis after Elvis. March fifty..
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