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May 21 · 68
street market
paul sheridan May 21
just recently discovered
   christina rossetti on a second
hand book stall
  down the market there were
others shouting their wares so much louder,
   but who cares
May 21 · 54
stick and carrot
paul sheridan May 21
use a stick since my stroke
approximately four years
ago it was when I last ran for a
bus, but I don’t miss it
May 20 · 313
used to linger
paul sheridan May 20
aren’t as many second hand
bookshops on the charing cross road as
there were when I was younger
of course, so were they   ..
May 20 · 50
crab paste
paul sheridan May 20
ate our sandwiches sitting
on the steps leading up to
the art gallery
it’s a matter of taste, she says
May 20 · 60
love museums
paul sheridan May 20
love museums full of stone age
artefacts, the odd roman sandal or two
and victorian pottery, and all
those insects skewered beneath glass cases
not solved by pulling faces
at what our ancestors got up to
paul sheridan May 19
can’t see a way out at all
     wherever one looks there’s just wall
    and yes, one solitary gate
      whereby they gather to await
    the old fool
May 17 · 42
authoritarian times
paul sheridan May 17
most people around here
take democracy for
granted they vote for the fascist  ..
May 17 · 143
nearly closing time
paul sheridan May 17
old bloke in the pub says
buy me a pint and I’ll be grateful
for ever mate, neither of us
have got that long       ..
May 17 · 60
can’t talk now
paul sheridan May 17
the pub at lunchtime
is quiet, he says,
I’m eating
paul sheridan May 17
this is all knew
I’d find it odd
my dear
May 16 · 72
leaves
paul sheridan May 16
leaves him alone
in the wood
are all he has    ..
paul sheridan May 16
just a glove, which everyone takes off
with well honed mimicry,
knuckles exposed, brittle *****
in their lack of symmetry, groaned
as they all have a hand in correctly mocking
all the above
May 16 · 76
but, look ..
paul sheridan May 16
let’s do lunch tomorrow
not sure if I can make it
I’m not asking you to cook
May 16 · 73
Out Of Nowhere
paul sheridan May 16
light is the lilt
of a flute
at dusk
in a quiet square
May 15 · 246
just beautiful
paul sheridan May 15
dressed to ****
and well yes there was
blood on her
skirt but I know
that’s not what
you meant
paul sheridan May 15
o’hara should have
been a little more careful
on the road
perhaps wasn’t his thing
reflections upon his death

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