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Hisperica famina

Sunday, February 19, 2017

The frothing sea surrounds the world and beats earth’s borders with its rushing waves. Its storm-wall claws the rocky foreshore, ploughs the bed with thumping crests, strewing shingled foam in starry furrows, ever-shaken by its thunderous blast.

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‘your broken heart’

Thursday, February 9, 2017

for Rich Hardcastle  y ….you ….y ….Yeah yo ….you ….yo ….You’re you ….You’re ….you ….your your ….You’re ….your ….Yours your[ ] ….Amazon.co.uk ….mum’s ….cruel your b ….ballbag ….b ….bezzies your br ….br ….brothers ….brother your bro ….bro ….brothers ….brother your brok ….brok ….broken ….book your broke ….broken ….broke ….bloke your broken ….broken-down ….broken ….broken-hearted your […]

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Mortality 101 – or; Catullus at the graveside

Friday, November 11, 2016

‘I want to explain about the Catullus poem … Catullus wrote poem 101 for his brother who died in the Troad.’ — Anne Carson . I have come, my brother, over lands and oceans, to this field of bones to observe the rituals of the final hour, and mumble pointless words above your ashes. Misfortune took […]

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Dr Johnfon’s Ducktionary – or; fome juvenilia, revifed upon mature confideration

Thursday, September 22, 2016

In this place (as oppofed to that) Is repofited horizontally a Hearty, wholefome and falubrious Young male exemplum of fub-genus Water fowl (be it wild or be it tame), The accufative fingular of which Samuel Johnson – Artium Magifter, Legum Doctor (honoris caufa) – Did trample and crufh most Contemptibly beneath his foot; Suppofing it […]

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Bertrand Russell wishes you a happy marriage

Sunday, August 28, 2016

for Paul and Beth (from volumes found at their engagement party) . ‘Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica is famous for taking a thousand pages to prove that 1+1=2.’ — Mark Dominus ‘To say shortly why one values love is not easy.’ — Bertrand Russell . I know what life and love may be. . . […]

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Peter, Mark, Roget. His Complete Poetical Works

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

On the Loss of Friends That it is vain to shrink from

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Easy Frisy

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

‘Some bread, some butter, and green cheese’ is as good in England as it is in Frisia. — * from a synthetic translation exercise by John McWhorter

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My literary career thus far – as narrated by the Shipping Forecast

Monday, August 3, 2015

Good, becoming moderate. Occasionally very poor.

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Love letter (hi/hi!/hey there/info)

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Whats’s up/Hey cutie/hottie/handsom, I saw you on a match/dating site sometime last week, i got some/sum goodpic/goodpix/naughtypic/dirtypix/freakypic 4/for you/ya.. message/sms/txt/text my num/numbr/# real quick/fast its 1-208-621-5702/848~565~2757/+12089036473/702.847.0394/702~729~2770. I’m/Im just a 23/24/25 year old gal/female. Im/I’m looking to meet new guys/friends/people and maybe hookup. message/txt/sms/text me if/when you/u get a min/chance/moment plz/please.

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AMOK – haiku

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Tell it like it is – I went for my usual walk – tell it like it was… — * verbatim lines from ‘Judge, Jury and Executioner’ by Atoms For Peace

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