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We have descended so far beneath reason that to speak it is to be regarded as extreme.

The profligacy of the rich can only be redeemed through the crucifixion of the poor.

As if aware of death, nature threw a shroud over things best forgotten. Like the time, sunk on Plymouth Gin, you opened your lungs to the moon and dashed a tumbler on the rockery. Or when, with nerves splayed, you … Continue reading →

Please, do not take my photograph. It is not the wayward tooth, or the botched parting in my hair, or the fist-shaped hollow that makes an empty coat of my chest. It is not this tell-tale beard. None of these … Continue reading →

Groping for change at the meter, I find, with a frisson of fear, the right amount – to the penny – amongst the fluff; detect, in the clever clunk of coins, something final. You, outside the surgeon’s room, prone in … Continue reading →

We walked down to the water’s edge where you took off your dress and threw me the blue towel, ‘Hold that’ you said. The sea was black and warm and the sky was grey and warm and both the sea … Continue reading →

We used to dream of bigger things. Remember the space-age look-out booth we hoisted up that needle tower, to see what starlings praised in flight? The view up there was cycloramic across the Downs, across the Channel along the coast … Continue reading →

I  used to be tediously passionate about rock (pop, indie, hip-hop, folk, call-it-what-you-like) music. I could hold court for hours, boring everyone to death with what I now know were jumped-up opinions and rather blunt insights. I sneered at established … Continue reading →

Anna Long Legs and I spent a white Christmas with her father, Steve, and his partner, Jayne , at their rambling house in Felixkirk, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it hamlet, just outside Thirsk, on the edge of the North York Moors. It was … Continue reading →