Don’t Shit Where You Eat

I’m a fiercely loyal friend, who tends to get scrappy in the defence of the people I love (for the record: that’s mentally scrappy – it’s all on the inside and I generally manage to keep my mouth shut and stay out of fistfights, but the knee-jerk response is still there). So, imagine the schism in my brain when the person I want to come to the rescue of and the person I want to kick the tar out of for harming a member of my “clan” are the same person. Continue reading »

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Really Looking

As a parallel to the Thousand Searches poem, which seems to have got a lot of people thinking, if not commenting, I’m posting an excerpt from 100 Days (the book I accidently wrote, next time I’ll write one on purpose!). Exploring that same idea of really looking at yourself: Continue reading »

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Sohbet – break-up songs

Part of a Valentine’s double header (I’ll post an article tomorrow), as comfort and entertainment for all you single folk on this most baneful of days, starting a poetic thread of favourite break-up songs. Continue reading »

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Sohbet – for the gift of it

To love,
for the gift of it.
Asking nothing
in return.

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Queen of Unrequited Love

I’ve got this great self-correcting feedback mechanism for unrequited love; it goes something like this: Continue reading »

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