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Contents
1:30 a.m..........................................................................................................................1
1950's Child ...................................................................................................................2
A September Morning....................................................................................................4
A Sort of Haiku..............................................................................................................5
A Special Day ................................................................................................................6
About Being Different ...................................................................................................7
Alone In The Night ........................................................................................................8
Another Life, Another Day ............................................................................................9
Change .........................................................................................................................10
Children – Don't You Just Love Them? ......................................................................11
Do the Psyche Shuffle..................................................................................................13
Do You Know Who It Is Yet? .....................................................................................14
Eric...............................................................................................................................15
If I Could......................................................................................................................16
In The Arms of the Dragon..........................................................................................17
Inspired by Fear Factory ..............................................................................................18
It's A Wonderful Day...................................................................................................19
It's Just a Word.............................................................................................................20
It's Life Jim, But Not as You Know It!........................................................................21
Life Doesn't Have To Be Perfect .................................................................................22
Molly............................................................................................................................23
Momma Said................................................................................................................24
Moonlight.....................................................................................................................25
Mr Perfect ....................................................................................................................26
Nervous Anxiety ..........................................................................................................27
One Day at a Time .......................................................................................................28
One of Life's Square Pegs ............................................................................................30
Reasons for Being Different ........................................................................................31
Reply to the Death Zone ..............................................................................................32
Shit Happens ................................................................................................................33
Socially Acceptable .....................................................................................................34
That Hidden Something ...............................................................................................36
The Death Zone............................................................................................................37
The Long Journey ........................................................................................................38
The Menstrualite ..........................................................................................................41
The Thrill Of It All ......................................................................................................42
The Woman Down the Well ........................................................................................43
Try to Accept ...............................................................................................................45
Voices in my Head.......................................................................................................46
Waiting.........................................................................................................................47
Watching ......................................................................................................................48
Whales Playtime ..........................................................................................................50
What's The Point? ........................................................................................................51
Why? ............................................................................................................................52
Ziggy the Magnificent..................................................................................................53
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1:30 a.m.
I’m here again
1:30 a.m. and wide-awake,
The brain racing on
And the body not really tired.
My thoughts are wide and various,
But I can indulge in my
Favourite fantasy of
‘I am an interesting being,
And can save the world’,
Which makes my brain
Run even faster.
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1950's Child
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Many summers came and went for Colin and for Roger.
Fathers both – though different from their father.
Colin stands by the back door, listening for the noises.
That tells him the kids are here for their Sunday’s access visit.
Roger eats his hotel lunch, then goes to ring his family
Back in England – achingly far, just another Sunday.
Nothing now seems clean and neat.
Nothing plain and simple:
Co-ordinated furnishings,
Un co-ordinated living.
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A September Morning
The peace and calm of early morning
Is with us again now.
At 6:00 all was dark, still and slightly eerie.
As I passed out to air the cat,
The darkness, seemed like a living presence,
Not really menacing, but watchful, aware.
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A Sort of Haiku
A skein of geese flew
Over the blazing sky in
A honk of sound.
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A Special Day
Something is pulling me.
And I am powerless to stop it.
The churning of my stomach,
And the chattering in my head,
Announce that today is going to be
A Special Day.
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Change
Baby bawling in your pram
Out in the garden, airing in the shade
She’s soon a little girl, Daddy’s Joy
Proudly balanced behind Dad
As he pedals up the path on your trike.
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DOING THE...
DOING THE
Oh tricksy fool
Will your tablets make me better?
Are you waiting for the hour
When you can zap me
‘Cause you’re bad enough.
DOING THE...
DOING THE...
You scream and shout.
You feel and feel
‘Cause you’re living on instinct.
You get the shakes. You’re shuddering
And you know there’s no winning
IN TREATMENT.
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Eric
I’m married to a shift worker
And it’s stinky.
It’s enough to make an angel
Spit and swear.
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If I Could
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Molly
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Momma Said
We didn’t fall into each other’s arms
With a cascade of golden stars
And a twittering of bluebirds.
We didn’t really notice one another.
And momma said the love would grow.
Maybe he’d arrived from a lonely far-off planet.
Maybe I was tired of waiting around.
The early days were hard for us:
Too many people too little time to think.
And momma said the love would grow.
Time slowly passed. My life had changed.
I was now his alone, it seemed.
He wanted me near him every hour.
I felt trapped and desperate by his demands.
And momma said the love would grow.
The love I expected to come welling up,
Was locked up tight inside.
“I can’t go on. This feels so wrong,”
I told my Mum one day.
And momma said the love would grow.
We struggled through the worst of times.
We made it through the days.
We bound ourselves together for all time.
Our mutual jokes were feeble but we were feeling love.
And momma said the love would grow.
The last few years have galloped by
Since we struggled through the days.
My little blond haired boy is now a man.
Unlike, and yet alike, we share a bond of love.
And momma said the love would grow.
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Moonlight
Moonlight is the time
To catch yourself a vampire,
Who will be the prey?
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Mr Perfect
Morning again,
Why does it have
To come around
So quickly?
Do other people
Feel like this?
They’re better than me.
They, disguise it.
Look around:
Smiling faces, confident
Joking, teasing one another,
Not me.
Life goes on
Around me, yet
Without me. I’m always
The outsider.
Home time:
Whether in a group, or
By myself,
I’m alone.
The corner...
The house...
The cloud...
He’s there.
My heart pounds
I can’t face it.
I have to,
DAD.
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Nervous Anxiety
Check the house
From top to bottom.
Wash the windows.
Clean the oven.
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Shit Happens
We live in a strange and unusual world.
And as humans we strive to control
Our Surroundings.
We make ourselves miserable,
By continually trying to impose our will
On the events that take place around us.
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Socially Acceptable
“How are you today?”
“I’m fine and you?”
This is the socially acceptable mantra
We all say this,
Whether our hearts are breaking
Through some love affair gone wrong
Or we’ve just heard we have
Only three months more to live.
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The Menstrualite
To the Tune of The Israelite by Desmond Dekker
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From the kitchen window the summer garden should look lovely.
But the colours are dim today and the lawn gapes its threat.
Stay inside the... but leave the door open... feel the air...
Let the sounds of other people’s lives filter through to stab the heart.
The piles ironing glares out accusingly, the redundant iron sobs.
In the cupboard the vacuum vibrates with indignation.
How many days since it was out and about?
The house is a prison of self-imposed torment.
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Try to Accept
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Voices in my Head
Voices in my head
Can’t get my sleep.
Voices in my head
Make me weep.
Make it go away,
I want to say.
Can’t keep up the fight
Another day.
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Waiting
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Watching
Is it me
Am I irredeemably nosey,
Or do other people
Feel an overwhelming desire
To eagerly peer into the hole
The workmen are digging
Just to see.
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Whales Playtime
Beyond the edge of the ocean
Out there in the mighty deep
There’s a deep tarumbulous rumble
That says there’s a whale asleep.
They stand on their heads when it’s snooze time,
After blowing a jubilant spout.
They dive to the depths of the blue slime.
And giggle while bubbles rush out.
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Why?
Why does there have to be
Such very blusterous weather?
It unsettles me and ruffles my feathers.
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