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Rant #110415 Bin Raiders | bits and pieces
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Medway Speakers’ Corner. Real Medway and Swale. April 11, 2015. Rant #110415 Bin Raiders. I read an article in the local news. It made ME mad, but I’m dimly aware I ought to be. Anger is the appropriate reaction to the state of things. Anger brewed slowly in the mind,. Anger at the twisted truth,. Anger created to inspire hate. Plucking at emotions, at people’s dreams of Shangri-La,. To feed their fears with the visions of usurping hoards. Those who batter down YOUR door, and take what’s YOURS,. YOU have...
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Savor #150415 Deluge | bits and pieces
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Medway Speakers’ Corner. Real Medway and Swale. April 15, 2015. Droplets form, clinging to my chest,. As white noise surrounds me, sunlight cuts through the thin plastic curtain,. That shields me from the rest of the day. Noticing a thin smear of purple gel,. I rinse it down into the tray, and with a wave of my hand it is gone. Water covers my eyes,. Dribbling past my mouth, and soaking my beard,. Its cold touch on my chin, will be the final sign,. I stand still for a moment. Laquo; Previous post. You ar...
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Savor #280415 On the sofas of my lethargy* | bits and pieces
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Medway Speakers’ Corner. Real Medway and Swale. April 28, 2015. Savor #280415 On the sofas of my lethargy*. My parent’s had three sofas when I was little. I lay on them all, sat and slept,. But on none as well as the first. Made from rough cord, mixing blacks and browns and greys,. It softened with age, and the stains of childhood incontinence. It was my sick bed, my fort,. And the platform from where I explored imagined realities and television dreams. I do not remember its demise,. To knock my shins;.
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Rant #140415 ‘The Real People’ | bits and pieces
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Medway Speakers’ Corner. Real Medway and Swale. April 14, 2015. Rant #140415 ‘The Real People’. He says he’s working for ‘the real’ people. Well that’s me fucked then. I am a robot,. A withered apparition,. The collective expression of other people’s ideas,. Jammed into a man shaped hole and trapped there. I am the product of a system,. And he would not like to meet me. There might be discussion,. I might offend his religious devotion to a set of ideas,. To the principles of his private club,. Fill in yo...
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Rant #020415 – On waking up with a hang-over after missing the election debate | bits and pieces
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Medway Speakers’ Corner. Real Medway and Swale. April 3, 2015. Rant #020415 – On waking up with a hang-over after missing the election debate. I rise with a sore head, pounding,. Dimly aware, 7 met last night. Probably wasted too much breath on how they’d put the world right. The small and larger box inform me,. Tell me who won,. Explain the situation, so I can understand it,. Without digging deep into the charade,. I flick through the channels and tilt my head,. Letting the pain drip to the other side.
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Rant #146924 | bits and pieces
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Medway Speakers’ Corner. Real Medway and Swale. March 28, 2015. Or a Rant,. I thought Rochester rant, but it sounded twee. So this is Rant. I will not change it now,. I will let it grow and become what it needs to be. But first I will get back to what this is,. And what it is not. It is not a poem,. Though it may have some poetic form,. And for all my denials it seems like one,. I might even rhyme, from time to time,. But mostly, not. It is not a journal,. Though it will contain thoughts,. This probably ...
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Medway Speakers’ Corner. Real Medway and Swale. March 28, 2015. Or a Rant,. I thought Rochester rant, but it sounded twee. So this is Rant. I will not change it now,. I will let it grow and become what it needs to be. But first I will get back to what this is,. And what it is not. It is not a poem,. Though it may have some poetic form,. And for all my denials it seems like one,. I might even rhyme, from time to time,. But mostly, not. It is not a journal,. Though it will contain thoughts,. This probably ...
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Block the sun | bits and pieces
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Medway Speakers’ Corner. Real Medway and Swale. June 3, 2015. I block the sun for no good reason,. Not to hide scars or distract from suffering,. But perhaps, dodging it’s glare has become a sport. Avoiding hope and all the trouble it can bring,. When every day is everyday. Shielded under a blanket of gloom,. Imagining macabre happenings rule my life,. And so protected from the savage storm,. I face a gentle breeze, and thrive. Holding the end of days dear. Painting a fearful vision of worse to come,.
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