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Muses

Statement: My best friends are my soul food. Opposite view: Friends are over-rated as creative muses. The traditional muse of the 20th Century was an attractive, usually single, woman who was paid, or not, to inspire the usually male artist. Many male artists fell in love, or lust, with their muses and some muses fell…

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It’s over

It’s over We had something special But we have it no more I miss you I hated your goodbye I wish I could hold your hand again But I know it would break my heart

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Tequila

Dad loved his Dad jokes. ‘Why did the Mexican throw his wife off a bridge? Tequila’ He had a million of them and the rest of the family suffered for two decades and beyond. But he was a dab hand at fishing off a jetty or a marina. Once, we were holidaying down at Second…

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Fuck off frogs

I’m a little teapot Short and foul mouthed I don’t like children Or cats in my house I don’t like horses, Piss off dogs, Rack off people And fuck off frogs *** A sailor went out to sea, sea, sea Because he wanted to have a great big wee He struggled and heaved But couldn’t…

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Sitting in the kitchen sink

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I’ve always been short for my age, and I pride myself on my contortionist skills. My mother, who has dwarfism like me, regularly has to stand on some kitchen steps to wash the potatoes. But here I sit, in the sink, swishing the bubbles to and fro.…

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I still love you

Julie Montgomery was blessed with two parents who still loved each other as much as they loved their only child. When Julie was only two years of age Miriam, Julie’s mother, was ‘ruined’ internally by a violent home invasion that left her viciously raped and unable to have any more children. After the incident Miriam…

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Scalpel

‘Scalpel.’ ‘Scalpel’ ‘I’m making an incision along the medial articulate line’ ‘Yes doctor’ ‘Forceps’ ‘Forceps’ Doctor Gerald Handsome, the city’s most skilled fracturalotomy surgeon, opened up the incision he had made and peered into the abyss he had opened up. He rummaged around in it. ‘Bugger,’ he exclaimed. ‘Yes doctor?’ ‘My wedding ring isn’t there.’…