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Choose one morning
But do it soon
Choose tomorrow morning
Do it without warning...
Long Live the Queen!
It is morning.
After turning every second to avoid the night
Sunlight drowns the images I tried to fight...
Healing Haiti
A low, rumbling silence,
The quiet after the storm,
Thunder sounds, and disappears.
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A Boy’s Own Song
bathos of orgasm
is opus disrupted
music splintered
in spoils of war...
The Big Escape
This
place. The stink, the grime.
The flock
of dreamers.
The
phoneys acting truly sublime.
...
?WHAT IS X?
Malcolm Little: Malcolm X…pronounced /’mælkəm ‘ɛks/…El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz…
Little meaning: small or short man; Malcolm meaning: devotee of Saint...
The Street Tramp
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After 20 hours of boozing and hitting the bottle,
he stands outside preaching as if Aristotle.
I wonder how long it’s been since he last washed,
he probably can’t remember...
Travelling
I've been to many countries, witnessed amazing things;
from koala bears to casino's and Asian kings.
Growing up in Edinburgh a bonnie wee lad,
dreaming about such things from my...
A lonely heart
Turning on the lights in the middle of the afternoon,
lighting the fire for warmth as cold creeps like shadows through the
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Times
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You sat at the bar in black
leather
...
