dave-gledhill
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Mar 16, 2025
Doodle
Unfortunate? Unforeseen? How a future life unfolds. Unmade, unloved. Unlit. Unwound. / Merciless moments. Their memories mashed mindlessly into the mud. Barbs and barbarism crippling and cutting to the core. / You slip slowly, slinking, sidling sadly into the shadows.
31
Aug 23, 2023
Plagued
A rodent’s trapped beneath my basement, / Its claws tapping out a statement of impatience, / enticed within by Bateman,
24
May 19, 2021
Pillager
Tear open the box, / cast the lid to one side. / Drag a nail down the oak
25
Aug 17, 2020
Bound
The eagle searches, circling, senses strum like spider silk. / Sorrow’s scent slides up on a sea breeze. / A solitary slave spits sullenly into the spray.
58
Aug 30, 2018
Repeat Offender
“YOU’RE JUST LIKE YOUR FATHER!” / screams the judge, / wielding a whiskey and a weaponised Women’s Weekly,
41
May 10, 2017
An Education
The pen, they say, is mightier, / but is it keener than a knife? / This brittle blade of insolence,
42
Jul 13, 2015
We
There, beneath the ice. / Frozen. / An unready meal, unfit for consumption.
35
Jan 30, 2015
Legacy
I see your hand waver, now you're faced with a ghost, / not the raw, killer features that were nailed to a post. / Just an old, dying cowboy, trying hard to play host.
44
Jan 30, 2015
Host
A stilted stay, a pregnant pause, / as shadows sharpen midnight claws. / A dimming dome oppressed by night,
24
Aug 7, 2014
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