Risky potential in another file

Back row snog leads to a smoke

Down on the couch with my

Ticket to ride

Carrying yesterday second hand

Across finer memories across leafy roads

And cherish the richest poor child,

Wellies, winkle-pickers, sinking mud.

And Mary pondered these

Things in her heart –

Women are smiles. Love wears wellies.

Telephones are sex...

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Risky potential in another file

Back row snog leads to a smoke

Down on the couch with my

Ticket to ride

Carrying yesterday second hand

Across finer memories across leafy roads

And cherish the richest poor child,

Wellies, winkle-pickers, sinking mud.

And Mary pondered these

Things in her heart –

Women are smiles. Love wears wellies.

Telephones ar...

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Neutral mind draped across grimy windows,

Got to be cocks and screwdrivers

Ducking and diving across unexpected surprises

Policies of strange girls from Blackpool

and Brief Encounters recycled in Staleybridge

Lumps of snot tubes or mask

Red sore skin rubbed to rust

We meet in hospital corridors,

Platforms of abandoned train stations

It was 50 yea...

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A caged bird in Wetherspoon's

Flashing jazz through messy mental maps

On skull-grey stepped buildings

Where books and more books glimpse

of measured escape

Over corridors blocking ways out

edited down stopping feelings

of revenge pleading eases

enchanted in a warped love

Messy murder, mental madness

Who is free and who is caged?

Too many hang-up...

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Crimson dust for a forgotten man,

The nuances of place emerge

All of us are wearing lace-up shoes

In this we are the same,

And other ways

That are hidden.

In screaming, panicked pain swells

Help may be

The only thing I can offer,

As well as my ear

And my time.

Bleeding the sky with your cosmic clouds

That shelter my dark matter

From within...

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Stockport town is upside down

Blue skies, regret for the river that was

I caught your cobble-stones with conviction

Voices from the youth skimming across the waters

Love is underfoot, under wet sand

Throw stones at the past; take care of the present; enjoy a future.

Red streaks blurring wistful meanderings

Lose yourself in the labyrinthine city

This...

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Tense reticence, the kiss of limbs

for Hanging’s biggest fan

Free and easy

Scattered island red

Poll blood hundred to the dozen

The long, elastic tug-of-war of love

Forgive me if I did not understand:

Lord, may my faith grow ever stronger

A voice cracking on the radio,

Giving some sort of verification

That the static’s home.

I know that it’...

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Three two one and the bullets are all gone. 

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Barely living through the dance of night

Tiger-stripe trapeze in savage growl

Swiss diligence with eerie eyes

From corridors of incandescence

To alleyways of guttered candles

Room with nothing but lonely memories

Ghosts, horror, the present, the past.

Everything changes. Nothing changes

Memories and wishes.

Two children play in the ashes

Where...

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Intact, these children dance and sing

Forward and back.

Forget hatred; make love,

but don't whore

Don't tell me the truth

Or look at the meanings

In between words

Summer is a salad of water

Blue eyes

People of all kinds

too many to remember -

Who cares?

I see new words in new directions

All new faces and self-reflections

A pill to ...

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