Voices

      
                  

Bad things run slow 

when ahead and fast 

when behind

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Buck Mulligan

   

   

The kind of guy I would gladly

show the way

out the window

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Body hide

   

   

Turns

hardly

the tide

around

your elbows

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A hard rain’s a-gonna fall

   

   

With umbrellas

at

a shortage

It doesn't matter —

no one will notice

you cryin’ in the rain.

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Evening Pub

   

   

A whisky and a pint             please

The pint is for my thirst

The whisky             for my heart

   

   

   

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Coming back

   
   

Dreams in a dream

but not as much as 

going back

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It was the year 1965 and afternoons were a happy time

    

    

Among other stories from other authors

we read “Mrs Packletide’s Tiger”

and we laughed our souls out

Then we learned about Saki

— our Hector —

and how he had died

on 1916

during the Great War

And although almost fifty years had passed

we learned too that merriment

had a sad shoulder

And so we said goodbye

And we grew old

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Real

   
   

Matter

of

perception

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