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"Missing the mule, they sit mid-air, didn't realise what would happen if they didn't believe it was real, if the hope they felt was lost, and the crib's just full of straw, they kept walking by. When t..."

"Even though it's hazy, I guess it doesn't matter, I walk between the mist hardly even there, part of me is part of it, and I feel it's come for me, a man in pieces, wet within the rain, it's enough to..."

"They exchange a pittance, a strange existence denial of the obvious and they behave like children. Don’t throw them copper from a jar, it's torture to keep them together for a while more. They've no n..."

"I stroke your collar, and if you purred, I really wouldn't mind, I'd keep you whatever creature you turned out to be. The real question is, what you'd make of me, this ill formed ape, who screws thing..."

"Caught in the spindrift, she teases the hope from me, whets my appetite, and I could walk to her, set out upon water and keep my head above it, so long as she speaks, keeps asking how I am, perhaps ma..."

"I'm all there is to know, try hard not to hide anything, let myself be me, take a walk round my person, understand who I am, no surprise I'm a simple man. But then there's my two little caveats, I kee..."

"This is for Alice, a girl who smiled, who understood, who was fighting all that she could from her wheelchair, hands stiff from illness, still she smiled, had the patience to smile, though she could n..."

"She could be seated opposite me, I'd never see, perhaps, though, I'd hear her, that lilting voice to charm the trees. Or maybe I'd smell her, that scent I'd imagined a thousand times, but most of all,..."

"Never push a removal van, they charge enough as it goes, and to help them save petrol is, as far as I can see, taking a rather large liberty. So when they say they've broken down, don't believe them, ..."

"On my face, the cracks appear, the cracks of stress, I feel no pain, but that's deep inside. I sit, great fissures on my skin, yet no-one sees, they just look out windows thick with dirt. I can only c..."

"Hands on head, what can I do, never could understand what I shouldn't do, thought we would know, thought they'd be signposts along the way. Can't say it any other way, still me today, still in this ru..."

"We, like some odd distance learning project, trade ideas, words, emotions, from our life havens, wait to be marked, wait for retort, bathe in the others simple presence. Yet the distance is hard to un..."

"Only one test worth anything, only one question in the test, did you do your best? Up to you how you answer it, there's still time to make a difference, ask yourself at the end of each day, and if the..."

"She is all I want, a girl with a glow, I am tired, but you keep me from sleep, I am old, but you keep me from aging, and if I don't hear you tonight, then I grow a little older, a little more tired. ..."

"To see your face would fill a million thoughts, to touch your hand, a million more, but I wouldn't stop there not till all my thoughts are filled with you, and I could live off you alone. Written Marc..."

"It's not really yours, though it sits pretty on your driveway, sits saying look at me, my master must be oh, so important... I'd rather have a banger that I own every single scrap of, I'd rather have ..."

"So he saved her life, and she thanked him, the lights are flashing one after another, he receives his medal, weighs heavy round his neck, he stands looking proud. But it's all just an act, the medal's..."

"Living in cartoon worlds, each picture a drama, no blue skies, no reconciliation, just step into the next scene, say whatever comes into your head, you know the next pane it'll all be in history. I re..."

"There's a room in my house, I keep all of my failures there, open the door, throw in another, here it slide down to the floor. I took the bulb out long ago, and boarded the windows on the inside, they..."

"I turn to the sun, feel it warm my skin, and life bleeds into me, sets the standard for the day, I hope that I can pass some out to those who need it most, to those with no sun at all. It's a right we..."

"Don't leave it now, there's another year to fear, another twelve months that can be spent quietly, darkly, without a chance of finding a way out. She said words to me, the seeds of thought that she k..."

"There's a wail from a woman, makes me smile through strangest times, familier words fall to my ears, and I sing a little, way off key. And this is all a part of me, I wonder who will know it next, I ..."

"I fire the arrow high into the sky, lie down watch it fall, close my eyes as it hits, a dull thud above my head, and I dig it out to fire again. I could do this all day long, it kinda gets familier af..."

"A little more air, can always bounce a little higher, me and my belle, we'll play all day, find it hard to stop. Be hometime soon, but don't let it worry you, know the people on the door, they'll let ..."

"when we meet at last i am so sure to love you i will stake my soul. Written March 7th, 2002 © on Mar 07 2002 08:14 AM PST, Simon Birks   0 • 12"

"Just press play, everything we took to know, let's explain what the hell we were, and never were, one constant stream to dip our toes, let the piranha's have their bloody fill, they'll not understand ..."

"Press play, the passwords on, won't like that, will you, have to see what's going on, I'm a little out of control, and these passwords just make you mad, have some *******, maybe it's another one, smi..."

"Sometimes to see your name, is a little sad, it puts paid to my dreams that I'll see you in the flesh that day. But before I frown, we speak and I've forgotten all my far-fetched hopes, and, replaced ..."

"Been wishing on a space station, all this bloody time, some astronauts who know nothing, been deflecting all my solitary wishes, no wonder I'm in such a mess. Not my fault it's the brightest body, alw..."

"Turning off the obvious, let's pretend I'm not perceptive, let's hope I'm just a little wrong about all this. Understand the others problems, don't think about your own, being brave in times is what ..."

"Press play again, it's none of their business, what you talk about is none of their business. I thought we made a deal long ago, in fact I know we did, yet you forget it now; I haven't. We both know w..."

"You want me to go? You can't live with me? Get a grip, girl, we're living separate lives, no interactions, no intersections, we share nothing, but nothing. Of course, the truth is my independance, my ..."

"All those crazy thoughts, they are the prelude to sleep, disassociations merge, and what's left makes a sweet smile cross my tired face. It is my subconcious trying to break through, and it's a crazy ..."

"Mud on his shoes, smell of earth surrounds him, and a look of pure distance in his pale eyes, we do not surround him, he walks through his own world, I watch him leave through the carriage door, and d..."

"He spat the venom from his mouth, little droplets formed on the floor, enough to kill a grown man, whatever that might be. He apologised, it so rarely happens, nowadays, and it's something he can't co..."

"When I was your everything, nothing mattered to me, I had nothing to be sad about, or cry about, you lit my life and that was all I knew, all I needed, we had such great fun, when I was your everyone...."

"A green and a blue, then a red and a yellow, no rhyme or reason, just put them together then put them away, a sock drawer of mayhem, rather there than in my thoughts, let it out through the cotton, an..."

"Hand flat against the frozen pane, take it away, it's all still there, and I can't see the outside, though the bright sun pressures in, and I wonder what I can do to change things. Walk around the sim..."

"Hard to shave at the moment, I look but I don't see, it's as if I don't inhabit the mirror's shiny world. The glass still moves if I push it, though no finger prints appear, I touch my face, and it m..."

"I kneel in a skip, dust has settled on my shoulders, I wonder how long I've been here, I've done nothing but look down. On my hand there's a spider, got a rumble in his tummy, he can't quite work out ..."

"You kept me awake last night, that and feeling hungry, in a way they're both the same, but I guess you know that anyway. This morning I was lighter, stepped on the scales at least two times, wonder w..."

"Both feet in my mouth, I am such an idiot, I like you so much.AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Written March 13th, 2002 © on Mar 13 2002 02:02 AM PST, Simon Birks   0 • 10"

"I banged on the door in the middle of the field, and I waited for an answer I thought would never come, with the sun setting west, and the mist rolling in, there was only little chance you'd get here...."

"I stood very still in the library, then moved, through the rows, I followed a noise I thought I could hear, wondered who knew my name. The book was an old one, and I'd seen it before, and I'd seen it ..."

"I've nearly finished the task, the drop won't be so bad, I'll dangle the ties, now tied up in a rope, from the top of the sill, I'm sure they'll take my weight, don't really matter if they don't, the ..."

"Got my heart in my hands, it fell off my sleeve, got covered in sand, that just made me sneeze, got my heart in my hands, it's all goey and stuff, but it's all I can offer, do you think it's enough? W..."

"I lie, the water sustains my frame, so close to sinking, I twitch my eyes, but little more, what’s lurks beside it best ignored. The sky has its many shades, today it chooses blue, and I watch the fa..."

"She saw something on the floor, took it in for a second or two, then kept on with her writing, I look to see what it might be, that stopped the pen mid-sentence, but I am not allowed to see the pause...."

"A bit less frantic, a month is a long time, I have a slow mind, will lengthen every second, with a thought of you within it, will you meet me there? And the pathway leads around the sides, each on a s..."

"Is there someone sitting here? I need a seat, and this one's clear, I'll move your bags, you keep them near, I'll hold your hand, and calm your fear. Now there's someone sitting here, it's me. Writte..."

"Open my glass house, mustn't make too much noise, I'm just as bad as any other, can't say I'm a saint, nor a sinner, though more one than the other, I'll sleep right here with one eye open. If you sh..."

"I see lines, they are random in angle, length and placement, though they draw no strength, nor give power, just merely exist, under these eyes so weary. They will not give me hope, do not signify wil..."

"The pigeon coed once a second, I sat and listened for a while, I doubt he knew he kept time so well. Then the train arrived, I heard him stop, saw him fly, he seems a bird that knows too much, about m..."

"Tunnels are the best, they cut off mobile phones, this makes me happy.(mobile has three syllables in UK speak!) Written March 19th, 2002 © on Mar 18 2002 08:03 PM PST, Simon Birks   0 • 14"

"Everything goes up, it's oh, so irrisistable, and I wonder where it'll stop, can't keep going up forever. I feel it will end, and I won't want to be around, we'll have to wait and see, if I am. All ..."

"Going forward, can't remember the last time I did that, perhaps it means something, but I won't be so confident, will be made to eat my words, will be meek and mild for a while. And I'm just a lad who..."

"The man walked his dog, right round in a circle, and the dog trotted along, in wonderful ignorance. At the walls he just turned, didn't think what layed beyond, he'd been trained so very well. Then wh..."

"Out of sight, out of mind, I've been nothing but a fools gold find, some empty shell that's been left behind, I've had to stay, with my own kind. Perhaps later, perhaps never, perhaps it was, or neve..."

"So I'm no longer here, lost the attraction between some days of yore, didn't expect it, should've expected it, no-one to blame but myself. I sip my beer, and tap my keys, I hear myself, and just hold ..."

"Father and boy, I can see them in the rear view mirror, they do not speak, and yet, have so much to say to the other. The man keeps on starting, opening his mouth, parting his lips to ask a question, ..."