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dartford
dartford
67/M/UK just a silly old fool
find orange juice too acidic for breakfast, and tomatoes simply revolting how they claim that a mediterranean diet is best I cling on to the toast ..
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48m ago
Jun 4, 2026 at 7:39 PM UTC
a cup of tea and a ciggie, at most
living only in the present seems to me a form of dementia please remember please, remember ..
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1d ago
Jun 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM UTC
it’s not all about living in the now
perhaps everything only seems bleak because it always has - go back to sleep
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1d ago
Jun 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM UTC
nightmare
never mind the gap you need to step up or down or whatever you’re doing just try not to panic ..
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3d ago
Jun 1, 2026 at 7:55 PM UTC
upon boarding, or disembarking a train ..
looks out of the window to see a bit of the world that he already knows what it’s like, so he goes back to bed ..
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4d ago
May 31, 2026 at 7:56 PM UTC
his morning point of view
“just now I have more money than I know what to do with tuppence in my pocket what the hell do I do with that ..”
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May 27
May 27, 2026 at 6:52 PM UTC
bloke on the street
is there a rhythm to everything, I mean even syncopation needs a rhythm to deviate from, and yet as I look at my attempts at dancing, I’ll think no, you self conscious, clumsy old fool, that’s just wrong ..
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May 26
May 26, 2026 at 8:13 PM UTC
just the song
when the typewriter became obsolete I initially had to go back to pen and paper, do you remember that? then my son gave me his old iPhone and patiently showed me how I could write a poem on it; and, well, so here it is ..
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 6:55 PM UTC
poem on an iPhone
they come close whilst looking at their phones to knocking me over and I’m bowled over that they don’t
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May 23
May 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM UTC
a grateful ******* on the street
the buildings around the revellers going out for the night are old and grey and dare I say a little embarrassed in a roundabout sort of way by a touch of neon light
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May 23
May 23, 2026 at 7:25 PM UTC
london is old, kids!