Monthly Archives: July 2017

Kinda Shoulda Sorta Woulda…

What is it like to be in sorts? I know all too well what being out of sorts feels like but in order for this antithetical experience to exist there surely has to be the initial contrary experience? No? Anyone? … Continue reading

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Scooby Dooby Doo, To Be Is To Do

Heavy-lidded apathy rules Saturday. It might not be apathy; I can’t be bothered to analyse myself deeply enough to know for sure. It might not even be Saturday: words are just words, they’re not genuine representations of anything. You know, … Continue reading

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And Curse Sir Walter Raleigh

The tireds have found me today. All of them. Not a bad name for a slacker britpop band, The Tireds. I went out. I came back again on account of tired. I wanted to make a sandwich but fell asnooze … Continue reading

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Rockin’ Stroll

How many times have I stood at the crossroads, staring down one dust road after another, each as apparently featureless and yet fraught with hazard as the others, a song in my heart, a thousand fears in my mind, the … Continue reading

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Newspaper Taxis Appear On The Shore

Brain, brain go away. Oh, is it rain? I’ve been harder of hearing all my life than I’ve realised. Plus I now have no excuse whatsoever for all those mind-killing drugs I took in my youth. And after my youth. … Continue reading

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All Your Dreams Are On Their Way

It was early. Ish. For me. It was quite late of a morning but I don’t do mornings so it was practically predawn for me, is what I’m saying. My brain and I were rapping bout stuff to be done … Continue reading

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No Direction Home

Wanderlust: the desire to hike, if you want to get all Middle High German on the motion, which too few people do these days. It’s a word that came up in conversation with my son during our travels last week. … Continue reading

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The City Sun Sets Over Me

Ah that’s better. I loathed the people of the outside world place far less today than I did yesterday. I seem to have avoided most of the DICKS is why. Instead I encountered goodly folk and sunshiny weather. As in, … Continue reading

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All The Unborn Chicken Voices In My Head

I’ll pop out and get some groceries, I says to myself (because nobody else ever pays any attention to a word I say especially the stuff about gerbils). It will invigorate me and help me interact with my fellow humans … Continue reading

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My Blood Will Thicken

Travel comedown, I fricking hate it. It batters my body whether I’ve been across the Atlantic or just popped over to Dublin for a couple of days. And it wounds my soul, leaving it cracked and splintered like the screen … Continue reading

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