We’re all

A little bit

Nuts

Sailing our little boats

In big shoes 

To nowhere

In no place 

In no time 

But carrying on

Regardless 

Maybe 

What it is to be human 

Is to sail 

Endlessly

On

And maybe 

What it is 

To be human

Is to hit the land 

Hard

And soft

And carry on

And then 

To learn

That it 

Isn’t the fault of

The la...

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I’ve never liked this world

So much 

To be fair 

It’s not the world

That’s to blame 

It’s the people 

I’ve always felt

A sense of meanness 

Hidden behind 

Or inside them 

And so 

I guess

I just thought 

People 

As a 

Species 

Weren’t 

Particularly 

Nice

But now 

As I look back 

Or maybe 

It’s just 

Where I’m at

Maybe it isn’t 

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It's funny 
You know
This obsession 
the human animal
Has with wheels
They changed its life
They made it 
Mobile
They helped it 
Move things
It couldn't possibly 
Carry
And now 
We wait
Slaves to technology
And whilst we wait
A little wheel spins
Maybe it's on
The screen
Maybe it's out 
Of the corner 
Of our eyes
Maybe it's not visible
At all
The spinning wheel
Reminding u...

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I keep treading on snails

And you see

I really don’t like killing things

Anything 

Spiders, flies, insects, and snails

And today

I wondered 

What the lesson was

And now I think I know

I need to look 

where I’m putting my feet

This may sound obvious 

But what I really mean is

I need to be more grounded

In the morning

when I tend to tread on snails 

I’...

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I am not seen 

And I am not heard 

But I am not a ghost

You see 

And I suppose 

This is a little 

Complicated

I am seen 

And I am heard

Quite a lot

And though 

It is my voice 

and my face

It is not me

And therein 

Lies

The problem 

For who is it

They see

And hear

And where Indeed

Am I 

Other than somewhere 

Inside my

Head

N...

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Most times

The world ticks on

As though

It never happened 

And maybe 

You’re

Still there 

And other times

It’s back 

Behind the eyes

Bashing at the heart 

Or behind it

Somewhere at least

Rattling the rib cage

And I can see

Where you stood

Where you slept

Your ghost 

I guess

Except at least 

If there was a ghost

I might 

Entertain at...

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You know
We all swallow our
Tablets
Are all poisoned by
Our own bad
Medicine
We paint a picture
Of the day 
Upon our 
Inane happy faces
Set our alarms
And struggle 
Out of bed
Trudge the Monday morning
Blues
Salute the Friday finish
Buy dreams in
Bottles or in packets
From here or there
Always someone 
Will sell
Always someone 
Will buy
And we spend our
Free time
Drinking 
...

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I’ve never felt 

So alive

And yet 

So close 

So on the verge 

So on the edge

Like a great 

Discovery 

Too good to

Be true

Like

Sometimes 

 I can feel

The heart beat

Of exactly 

Where I’m supposed to be

And all the lights 

Shine 

Like the fates

Have all lined

Up

With torches 

Of fire 

And of passion 

And then 

Sometimes 

...

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A word of warning 

My friend

Im watching this 

Thing

On Telly 

You know

It’s one of those

He did this

They did that

Someone died 

Then a another someone 

It looked like an accident 

It wasn’t 

There were some clues

I think I 

Missed them

And then I think

I haven’t a clue 

What is actually 

Going on

And maybe 

I’m not 

Giving it...

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I thought tonight 

When my daughter came to me 

And she’d woken up

Crying 

The first thing I said 

Was

It’s ok 

And I hugged her

Not are you ok

Or it will be ok 

or

what's the matter?

Just and simply 

It is ok

And I wonder 

Why we don’t say that 

To grown up children 

Instinctively 

Before 

We say or do

Anything else

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I can tell 

You 

What you want to 

Hear 

Or I can tell

You what you 

Don’t 

And I know what 

It is 

that you’ll choose

And I know what 

You’ll choose to hear 

Whichever way

I put the words

Because

Everyone 

Is to blame

And Everyone 

Is blameless 

These things 

Don’t happen by

Accident 

And they don’t happen 

On purpose 

Either...

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It's a morning of

Infinite possibilities 

And everything 

Might change

Showers heavy

Thunder likely

Time to cut away

This knee high rough

Heads are in the valley

Waiting to

Break the news

Afraid of losing

Their ground

Habits are shaped

Dependency and addiction

Form

And the lady of sunlight 

Crashes through

The clouds

Shaking her golden locks

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All in all
Things work out
It seems to me
That this is just
What they do
So you can
If you choose
Worry about
This way 
And that path
This person 
And that monster
You can lose sleep
Over tonight
Or tomorrow
Or today
Or the things 
That have already 
Happened
Or you can
Simply
Let them happen

An old man once 
Said to me
Let be 
Be
And though
I understood the words
I d...

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In this world 

There are 

Many things

Some things

Are better 

And some things 

Are worse

And some of the

Better things 

Are actually worse 

And some of the 

Worse

Are actually 

Better 

I digress 

But there are 

Always things

And what you 

Do with them 

Or without them 

Is the measure 

Is the weight 

Of your soul 

At the...

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Once upon a time 

There was a question

But I didn’t really 

Understand 

What the question 

Was supposed to be 

Or which shape it had taken 

Or how it looked 

Or felt 

Or maybe 

I was too busy 

Thinking 

About the answer 

To give the 

Question 

The time 

And the energy 

And the respect 

For it to 

Be 

What it was 

Supposed to be 

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I don’t like the 

Headhunters 

I mean

Once upon a time 

I was up for it

Heads on poles

Warn the 

Fuckers

Away

Hearts on the sleeve 

And all that 

Clap trap

But now 

Now 

They haven’t even 

Got the decency 

To be 

Secret assassins 

They haven’t got the bottle

To shrink 

Your head 

Dress it up 

With a spell

Now they take you 

In...

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I wish you meant 

What you said

I wish you said

What you meant 

I wish I 

Didn’t know 

This half life

Between the 

Shadows 

I wish I could 

Read you 

Like a 

Book

I wish you weren’t 

The magazine 

I didn’t buy 

Because 

I’d read it 

All 

Before 

There are things 

I could tell you 

(And have)

Which I could tell

No one else...

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We are but playing 

At this

Game 

Some of you 

Call 

Life

This idea 

Of living 

A song in the stream 

A wink at the 

Rainbow 

Is so far removed

It may as well be 

An accidental 

Painting 

But it is

Not 

This is it

The colours 

Of light 

Painted 

Across the sky 

This is not a dream 

One day you 

WON’T

Wake up 

And if...

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With our rings

Of gold 

And our hearts

Of silver

And our lead boots

Waiting

To trudge 

Out to sea 

We pour through

The gaps

Spill through 

The fissures

Spitting and

Snarling

And bleeding

We glare 

At the pirates

As we shuffle

Forwards

To collect 

Our pieces of 

Eight 

And we punch 

Our drunkeness 

Into the faulty 

Machine 

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Am I 

Just playing 

At this game 

We call 

Living?

Because 

I tell you 

Now 

I haven’t a clue

What is going 

On

My hair

Or what is 

Left 

Of it 

Is turning 

Silver 

As though 

The value of 

My thoughts 

Are finally

Being 

Appreciated 

By my body 

At least 

If

Nothing else 

And my vision

Is suffering 

I...

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New kinds of evil

Dripping out of 

My skin

Seeping out of 

My pores 

Are you threatening 

Me 

Am I intimidated by 

You 

Do you think

Your age and 

Your

(Lack)

Of experience 

Can get close 

To me 

Can make me 

Lose 

Sleep

Make me 

Sweat 

Oh

You don’t know 

Me at 

All

You

Misjudged 

The rage 

You failed to 

See

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There is a

Baby sleeping 

And as yet 

She knows nothing 

Of this world 

And somehow 

She knows 

everything 

She dreams 

In a space 

Betwixt 

Two holes

The gap that is 

Your world

And the space 

Which 

Will be hers

And 

For now

She knows little 

Of either 

Though it 

Is painted 

In the lines 

Of her soft skin

And ...

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We’re not 

Special people 

We don’t tread the boards

Entertaining 

The masses 

Waiting for the 

Curtain 

To lift 

And fall

We don’t have the 

Mic

At our beck and call

Ready to hypnotise 

With our song

Our words don’t 

Change the world 

Our steps don’t change 

The future 

We are 

Ordinary folk 

Stepping out the

Day

And 

In our own...

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And now 

The ghosts

Have started 

Coming 

And it wasn’t 

Quite 

How I 

Imagined it

In fact 

It isn’t anything 

Like it

At all

And I wonder 

Therefore 

Is it only me 

Because they 

Told me lots of

Things 

Lots of stories 

And they gave 

Everything 

Away

But they 

Never 

Mentioned the ghosts 

And I see them

Mainly 

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Invited to a talk

by a humble, yet well respected man

I learn about a life of exile

(that I am living)

& although the spotlight is not on me

it shines brightly

accentuating my distorted priorities

and all the while

I am accompanied by the living dead

A life that shines so brightly and yet fades before my eyes.

A man who is so close to me 

and yet a man I cannot tou...

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They played cards 

and they talked 

whilst the little 

chess pieces 

danced

The eldest lit 

a cigarette 

whilst the youngest 

exhaled 

Its smoke

Empty whisky bottles 

shuffled nervously 

and someone 

in the corner 

sang a song 

about the sea 

and a canon ball

A man stared blindly

into the future

droning incessantly 

into the

Flea bitte...

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She sat down 
At her writer's desk
With her box of
Letters
And her pallet of 
words 
And as she painted
She tried to glue
sentences 
Together 
To make some sense
Of the world 
Which reflected 
Before her
In the paper thin mirror
Which was both
Her life and
Her life's 
Work
The jumbled paragraphs 
tumbled 
On to the canvass
Acrobats of her mind
Spilling ideas of 
What was
A...

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I know 
How you will speak
Before
You have spoken
I know how you 
Feel
Before the ice
Washes
Over your soul
I knew you
When you were
A child
I knew you 
When you
Were an animal
I knew how
You would 
Move
For the secret buttons
You think
You have hidden
The secret drum
Which resonates 
Within your soul
Is not so
Secret
We are all
Human animals
And animals
Of humans 
An...

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When you

Are three

Or four 

And maybe 

Even five 

Days are days

There is

No Tuesday  or 

Wednesday  

Or Thursday  

Or Saturday 

Or the delight 

Of a Friday 

Or the dread 

Of a Sunday 

Night 

But these 

Days

Named 

After things 

We no-longer know 

Or 

do

The space between

Them

Shortens 

The idea of them

Lengthens 

A...

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This bad kid 
good kid thing
I don't get 
The bad kids want 
to be good
The good kids want 
to be bad
What the bad kids want 
the good kids got
Except they don't understand 
except maybe for 
the want
What the good kids want 
the bad kids got
Except they don't understand 
Except maybe 
For the need
And what you folks 
don't get 
however much 
television you fill 
your reality ...

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Sometimes 

It’s the little things

Which go 

Unnoticed 

The way your 

Clothes 

Hug

Your body 

The way 

Your toes 

Point 

Framed by

Your socks 

The way that 

Bit of flesh

Flashes 

In a glow 

Brighter than

A star 

A shrug 

A smile

The delicacy of 

A finger 

Or the flick

Of a wrist 

And it’s those moments 

Which we...

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You know what 

I think 

I mean

I know you

Don’t because

You don’t ask 

And when you do 

Ask 

You 

Don’t

Fucking 

Listen 

I think 

When  I’m being

Kind

That you’re 

struggling

That your 

Family

Let you 

Down 

When you didn’t 

Even 

Know 

You needed them 

The most 

And that

Now 

When you need 

Someone to care

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We all live

Within a dream

Of ourselves 

Our inner mirror 

Reflecting 

Very differently 

To its weaker counterpart

The one 

Made of glass

Our inner wardrobe 

Very different to the one

We we wear for real

Our inner voice 

Almost unrecognisable 

To that poor 

Imposter 

We hear when 

It plays 

Back to us

On whatever 

Modern technology 

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t's too hot

To sleep

Yet we long

For these days

Of discomfort 

When all we want 

Is to wallow and bask

To sit in the sun

Let the day 

Drip slowly by

Smile at the sky

Listen to the birds

Watch the busy people

Buzzing about their 

Days

Trapped in their little boxes

Running their little 

Machines 

Sweating out

Their busy-ness

And their busin...

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Some say 

She left the tap

Running

Because she was

Hurtling

Head first 

Into a tumble of

 Life

Some say she did it

To drown out the sound

Of all her ideas

As they spilled 

From her pores

And dripped as tears

Forming puddles 

Of what might be

Others say she did it

Because 

Of the worry 

And the strain

And very pain

Of a troubl...

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What If

There was a clock

Which told

The real time

A time piece 

Governed not

By the artificial 

Tick

Or the mechanical 

Tock

But ruled

Only 

By the rhythm 

And emotions 

of 

The beating heart 

A watch

That watched

And when things 

Went slow

Their passage 

monitored

And measured

In real terms

Sensitive to 

Feelings

Not t...

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We’ll get there 

One way or another 

And we’ll learn 

Along the way 

And 

we won’t forget 

What it felt like 

We won’t do this 

To other people 

We will learn 

And we will 

Remember 

And when 

We’re 

HERE

Again 

Passing ourselves 

On the way back 

We’ll think 

A little more carefully 

Behave 

A little more responsibly

And help ...

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I feel 

Like I’m wearing 

A suit 

Sometimes 

Like my hands are 

Gloves 

Like my skin is

cloth 

And I want 

Only 

To peel it all 

Off 

Reveal 

The blood

The sinews 

The muscle 

The fat 

The bones 

Because 

That’s what 

We are 

After all 

And maybe 

All we can hope 

Is 

To not be seen

As 

A blubbering mess

On th...

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There is a place 

Where the stories 

are real

And their tellers 

Are not 

Where the dreamers

Lay awake 

And the lovers 

Wrap and unwrap 

Like beautifully crumpled 

Unwanted presents

Where people 

can fly

And animals 

can talk 

Where the flowers and trees 

Cry 

At the loss of their leaves 

And the snapping of 

Their branches 

Where th...

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Sometimes 

You don’t realise 

It is you

Who talks 

Or doesn’t talk

Never me 

And when 

That 

Silence 

Echoes between us 

It is 

Your 

Silence 

Not mine 

For I 

Never 

Spoke 

In the first 

Place 

And so 

You look at me 

With those tired 

Eyes 

And listen 

Expectantly 

For words 

Which I could never 

Speak 

For it is...

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These times 

Are hard

And tonight 

I’m tired

We have to

Make decisions 

Think 

On our feet 

Roll out the 

Carpet 

And walk on it 

With our footprints 

Mapping out

Our future 

Before we can 

See it 

Though 

Our 

Footsteps 

Echo 

Forwards 

Determining 

Which way 

We go next

The easy

Option 

Is to drink

Drink again

Dr...

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Everything in life
Has its place
Every person in life
Have their time 
Don't hold on 
When you should 
Let go
Don't let go
When you should
Hold on
Don't panic 
And fight battles
Which don't yet exist
Don't be defeated
By wars 
That others believe 
They have already won
Don't turn the fields 
Of glorious destiny
Into battle grounds 
Of failed misery
And remember always
That be...

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You could let
A lot of things
Bother you 
If you wanted to
The daylight 
Breaking your sleep
The darkness 
Of cold mornings
The noise 
Of life 
Dragging you
Along
Passing you by
Taking you in
And 
Under
The people
Asking too much
Or too little
The gaps 
Where things ought
To be
But aren't 
The traffic and 
The travel
When 
Everything 
Should 
Stand still 
The freeze an...

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List
Words
In 
A
Line
Things 
To do
To not
Forget 
Or at least
To put
Our minds
In some 
Kind 
Of order
Though
For what 
I'm not
Quite
Sure
Regulation
Sense
To stop
Us falling
Off 
This planet
We love
Our lists
Maybe
They help
Us
Make sense
Of 
This 
Nonsense
Maybe 
They provide
Order
And control
Because 
It seems
Above 
All else
That's what
We need

W...

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She sat down 
At her writer's desk
With her box of
Letters
And her pallet of 
words 
And as she painted
She tried to glue
sentences 
Together 
To make some sense
Of the world 
Which reflected 
Before her
In the paper thin mirror
Which was both
Her life and
Her life's 
Work
The jumbled paragraphs 
tumbled 
On to the canvass
Acrobats of her mind
Spilling ideas of 
What was
A...

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I knew a man 

Once 

He wasn’t a

Big man 

In the grand scheme 

Of things 

But he filled up

My whole

World 

In the week 

I don’t suppose 

I saw him

Too often 

He left 

When it was dark

He came home 

When 

It was dark

But my world 

Was anything 

But 

Dark 

And I didn’t

Make the link

Back then

Or even 

Until n...

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They say 

They say 

You can tell 

A lot 

About a person 

By the shoes 

They wear 

And maybe you 

Can 

Or maybe that’s

Just what we 

Like to call

Poetic license 

Something to do 

With good old Atticus 

And his moccasins

But lately 

I’ve come to thinking 

You can tell 

A lot about 

A person 

By the glasses 

They wear

Shou...

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Today

A man said to me

You might be

Surprised 

At how I look 

(I wasn’t)

You might think 

I’m

Built

For different 

Things

(I didn’t) 

You might think 

My way 

Is not the way

That it is 

(I wouldn’t)

Yet he seemed 

Happy

In his own 

Dressed up 

Way 

With his hair clip 

In place

And his bandana 

Threatening 

To hide

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Why does this 

Life 

Evolve 

And revolve 

Around minutes 

Dripping and squeezing 

And ticking and tockimg 

And oozing 

The very life 

And soul 

Of the party 

Which seems 

To offer so much 

And show 

So little 

I mean 

Take Sunday night 

For example 

I long for that 

Machine of your 

Dreams 

With peddles and paddles

And 

Cogs

A...

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Listen to 

Your prophets 

However they may 

Fall

Listen to the 

Breeze

Which blow inside the tower

That is 

Your mind 

Listen to the rain 

The wind 

The snow 

The mountains 

And the trees 

And if you can’t 

Listen 

At least 

Stop talking 

For a moment 

The sea is the sea

The sky is the sky 

And somewhere 

You can float

Between

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