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Some unedited odds and ends

Works in Progress The Shop there’s a shop up in Albany Road – a supermarket actually it’s always rammed trolleys jammed students, suits and shirkers academics, social workers it’s too much for me I’d rather be in bed   What I See It’s raining here in Shropshire He had a temperature of a hundred and [...]

Cat

Everyone should have a cat, if not their own a borrowed one. The cat will sit and clean its fur, wiggle its claws inside its ear, stare at you from time to time, sneer at your silly rhyme.   Related Posts:Some unedited odds and endsA visit to Margam steelworksfirst words

Forty years is a long time

- forty years ago I would have called him an old man if I had noticed him at all he would have slippered past me in the corridor and smelled of pee I would have held my breath for a step or two and now he’s me – Related Posts:Some unedited odds and endsA visit [...]

On a hard day

stresses and strains aches and pains bruises and sprains again again Related Posts:Some unedited odds and endsA visit to Margam steelworksfirst words

Was I sighing a lot then?

Was I sighing a lot then? When? Then, when I was on the computer. Were you what? Was I sighing – a lot? Just a bit. I hope I’m not like that in work. Work? You hope you’re not like that in work. Ha Ha. Doesn’t matter why you’re sighing – you just don’t want [...]