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Nov 2017
I'm less able to stand
and liable to fall.

that seat in the corner's for me
but she, yes you with the headphones on have gone and takenΒ Β it.

it's capital ain't it?
stand all your life and
think you're souring.

Him with the top hat sat next
to her in the corner with his head
buried in a paperback book
doesn't even bother to look,

The girl with three cases, one back pack
pulls faces as if I was to blame.

There are no friends to be made
it's one for oneself and all for one, the train carries on, I carry on, we all carry on
and some get off.

Friday
not a bad day but it never starts well and not if you're locked in your own private cell.

Her thumb's drumming on the glass screen of a Nokia,
knocking out her frustrations probably.

I'm letting it wash over me
it's just like a soap
without the suds.
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
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   Ryan Holden
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