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  • Samolin

    Where is my white sister Paul where is my Samolin   I have wandered the streets for her through history thick and thin   Where is my white sister Paul where is my Samolin   I will never cease asking you until she is safely in       Gratitude Leonard          […]

  • The World Speaks of Madrid

    I had always admired her lunar skin Which remained pale no matter the light She used a different name at each hotel To try to distract me from her trail   I had never lied to her she knew that well But she had always tried to avoid me As I knew every one of […]

  • I Once Found Myself on Bewdley Railway Station

    I once found myself on Bewdley Railway Station Waiting for a steam train How I had got there was a mystery to me The last thing I can remember was being at church fete Dressed as Joan Jett and buying ceramics from a Destroy China Stall Indeed on the seat next to me was a […]

  • The Hair Shirt

    I was walking down the slight hill towards the goods yard It was a trip that I made on most days as I worked there My job was to supervise the loading and unloading of goods The post was secure and the railway company left me alone But on this day something was wrong as […]

  • Outlaw as Jasmine Tea

    As of Midsummer’s Day I have decided to go to Peru for a while Jasmine Tea is taking over from me   She is a gentle fair maiden full of grace Who speaks in couplets and is pale of face   So do welcome her into our fold And she will write fictions and poems […]

  • In my bath

    I often take a bath at a friends house But do not use his Aqua-Lung or my own As I would like to experience the music of drowning   Valerie 

  • I found a pencil

    I found a pencil yesterday Outside of the butchers shop It was red and black with a sharp point I took it home and started harming myself As I wanted to see if would die of lead poisoning   Valerie

  • Jumping in Front of a Train

    I tried to jump in front of a train yesterday But my two friends stopped me just in time They took me for a coffee and we had a chat   My friends could not understand why I done so I explained that my former boyfriend had jumped To see what it was like and […]

  • Swimming with Sappho

    In the winds  I hear  The poems  Lost in time    Do you hear the lost poems of the sea When you swim at dawn Anna I cannot say I do As poetry when I am swimming Is the least of my concerns   Then what do you think about When swimming in the sea […]

  • A Portrait by Hanging

    I have a painting of a hanged man Of the wall of my main bedroom I believe that the artist was English Although I purchased the work in Spain It appears to be that of a solitary suicide Inside of what looks to be an ancient barn It might have been a bankrupt farmer Or […]