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john-edward-smallshaw
john-edward-smallshaw
70/English You can follow me / John Smallshaw on Facebook / also the 'pantechniconpoet' on Wordpress.com / Website.. / soundcloud / YouTube / blah, blah, blah / ps / so many genders to choose from and I'm not sure anyway.
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Now in sync ( and several other colours) I think. got to get my gear on get up and get on go out to be one of the many heroes you meet. Still pretending that my cape's at the cleaners.
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13h ago
Jun 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM UTC
Will work at times
Did Duffy ever get to Warwick Avenue? Questions arise buzzing like flies and the answers are far away. Like the past, it was present, but now it is ancient, and now the present becomes the past and so on, and we go on, to what end? more questions no answers although there are ballroom dancers! I must be dreaming no if I were dreaming they'd be lap dancers tap dancers anything but ballroom dancers, so what's going on?
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1d ago
Jun 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC
Platforms and engines
I happened on the feeling that my body wasn't healing and the quackery they gave to me was not bespoke, and something off the shelf for health doesn't really cut the mustard. I trusted in old remedies found some herbal recipes and now I'm as right as rain.
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1d ago
Jun 5, 2026 at 5:43 AM UTC
Not everything is in tablet form
People used to be industrious there used to be industries now there are just cafes where people sit and sip frappe's and eat croissants and cake.
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1d ago
Jun 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM UTC
The progress prize goes to...
Unrest. for some people unrest is what they do best.
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1d ago
Jun 4, 2026 at 3:32 PM UTC
#10word insomnia
Some mornings when I wake up I feel like I've gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson and then I put the light on to find the pillow in shreds bed's not for me it's for the saintly and that definitely ain't me.
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2d ago
Jun 4, 2026 at 7:04 AM UTC
Conclusion
Went out to town again, got back before the rain came down 1-0 to me. The rest of the day can and will have its way but in I am going to stay, read a book look at things I need to do something to eat comb my hair and for a treat read chapter four, what more can a man ask for?
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2d ago
Jun 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM UTC
So far, so good
Net Zero stole my meat pies.
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2d ago
Jun 4, 2026 at 12:35 AM UTC
sixwordsorless
There is definitely an art to it and we're all a part of it doing our bit to make it better.
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2d ago
Jun 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM UTC
Lifers
Stripped of their dignity and led into penury by those sharks at the treasury, and for what? certainly not for what they've got. A tragedy for everyone the young and the elderly, except for the 'I'm alright Jack's ' who say, 'Well, that doesn't affect me' and they're index linked at the ministry, all nodding their heads as they lecture me about the need for fiscal responsibility. No surprise then that the black economy is booming, there's room in the back of the lorry something fell off.
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3d ago
Jun 3, 2026 at 11:10 AM UTC
Ouch. part two