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A dark night
that is
devoid of light
and an
alley
.. that
bodes ill
is where
I walk
.. when
your hand
is away
from mine.
Make me whole –
I need to ..
repair my soul.
Help me, show me;
Show me there is a way,
To say what I need to,
“Help me!?!”
Hell me –
Hell you …
What a thing
- for you to do.
You went with him
When it shoulda bin me:
An, you went with him,
when .. I thought, your
Love, was mine.
What was it?
Just a different wine??
An only now
can I look back
an see –
just why it happened
in the manner it did.
You grew up fast
An it wouldn’t last
- when ambition an
Prozac, reigned
over, the you I’d
thought I knew.
So I’d rolled over
.. just like Rover.
I couldn’t cope
- didn’t have a hope.
So.. you’d
needed to talk ..
An he’d offered
to be a friend –
Some friend –
My best-friend.
Yet, we didn’t talk
- so I shall not balk
at the end of it all
an all.
But “Hell on you”
an “Hell on you..”
- why on earth
could I not see.
..just what had
happened, in front
of me..
Was I blinkered –
Or was I blind??
For I did not see
did not think..
.. that he was of
that kind.
It’s sunny and showery, with
light showers, as I listen to
the radio and stories of the
town of Cockermouth, as it
becomes an Isle within Isle,
thanks to the floods of the
last day or so; and with a
really serious case of bed
head, I answered the front
door to the postie, wearing
a robe, and just one sock,
as I accepted the parcel that
was intended for me: and
there were biscuits and some
chocolate crisp; and candles
and holders and a mug; as
well as a toy multi-coloured
chicken. And with it was a
belated birthday card, with
it that says, “To my best and
most long-lasting pen pal..”
And it’s from my Mother’s
late best friends niece, I’ve
known for over twenty year.
And with tears still in my
eyes I had filmed a thank
you, ‘coz those words had
really touched my heart: and
truly, I think that presents
aside, I’d have been just of
made-up, to receive it alone:
As words like them help me
realise that I’m not, alone.
Just after I shut down VR
I looked out the curtains at
the front, to see a royal blue
sky up above; and a bright
full moon, shining through
the tree on the verge that
sits ouside my home, the
tarmac of the road still
glistening from the rain:
And, just the same as most
any other night, I said my
byes, to those on the right
of the screen, not at all
surprised really, that the one
I had wanted to answer had
chosen not to do so; after
all, what was in it, for her?
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And ‘tho I don’t go out as I’m
loath to feel unsafe, I’m glad
I went to The Park View Social
and Pete and Mandy’s night,
to see people I just don’t get to
see and others, I haven’t seen
for many years and more.
Outside, I’d been having a smoke
And got talking with a fellow name
of Phil, who I’d not spoken to since
seventeen years ago and funning with
him, as he chatted with me, I had made
a joke ‘bout Canadians, at which a guy
sittin near the wall, waned me of the pall
I’d bring to his ladies face, as being a
Canadian was her race.
And the fellow I knew, I knew him as
Big Dave, a fellow who tries to impress
Those wearing a dress with his manner,
Which I find offensive, as I’ve known him,
Seen him, bully someone, just ‘coz he can.
And, though it was good to see Sam, both
short and short for Samantha, dressed as
a zombie cheer-leader, with vampire bites
upon her breast.
And Peters latex job, with was the best of
the night, even ‘tho a girl with the figure
and face of Cher, with a witches outfit that
would have suited her, had walked up to me
and said, 2You look like a serial killer” as
if it were a compliment. And, what is weird
is I knew who she meant: she was thinking
of Geoffery Dhalmer and, to her that was a
good thing, just wished she had thought I’d
looked like who I’d meant to be, the DC
comics character of Constantine, but I’d say
that pleasure had been mine.
That said, just before I left, I got a farewell
kiss from Rachael, Mandy and Vicky and
I’d said to her, “I could die now, happy.”
Having got from the station
I arrived at the bus terminus
having had a pit-stop at the
whiskey-shop on the way.
And, I’d been trying to help
a young man, very drunk
and disappointed with his
friends, who left him feeling
quite lonely and blue.
And, as I stood there, the
world passed by, albeit
slowly, as I’d waited the
forty minutes it’d taken,
for my bus to arrive.
I had stood by the entrance
smoking a smoke and saw
a pink bikini, with pink
fluffy ears, with an attractive
slim, tanned blonde wearing
both; and on her long legs,
a pair of thigh high black
fuck me boots and a wide
smile, when she humoured
my greeting with an ever-so
brief smile as she carried on
her way.
She had been followed ‘bout
ten minutes later by Gandalf,
who given me a nod, as he had
slowly walked his way.
Yet I mustn’t forget the two
young men from Liverpool
walking round, a look of
utter confusion on their faces
as they wandered round and
looked for Christchurch.
They’d been pleased to learn
they tho we were in Birkenhead,
Prenton, which is where they had
wanted to be, was ‘just round
the corner’, which really wasn’t
far, for them to go.
Then shortly after the girl in the
Red dress and touting a plastic
Pitchfork turned me down, when
I asked her if I could take her
Photograph, my bus had arrived.
And when I got on the bus, I sat
At the back, as I’ve a wont to do
And a young loud thing, to young
To drink, who had been, had made
Me smile, as she told me and the
Bus, about how loud and bright
She was.
And, sitting there, without a care,
with hair that Elsa Lanchester
would have worn in that sequel
which made her name, wearing a
white tee-shirt of a satin look, and
beneath this, a black push-up bra
and a make-up job that really suited
this little cute, baby zombie, with
dark lips and jeans worn from her
ever-so bony hips. Amber was the
girl’s name and I told her I’d not
forget, not a hard thing to do, as she
was my idea of the word vivacious,
‘tho didn’t know what it means..
And, when I got off that bus, the
young fellow I’d been talking to
had wanted to stay with her and her
quite blonde mate, name of flower.
And truth be told, if I’d been about
twenty-five years younger, I’d
have said the same, no matter the
name, then done so: I don’t think
that he had, y’know!
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