The high functioning alcoholic starts the day with a liberal libation of liquid sin, beneath their Celtic cream coloured skin once beat the heart of Gunga Din .

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What was once a stamp for the tramp or cut of a criminal class is now adorning the faces and physique of aristocrat, royalty and supermodel chic .

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A poem I wrote to commemorate the courage of Christine the first transexual beauty queen who back in 1953 decided bravely to have her gender reassigned to its rightful sexuallity in order that she may be set free from the burden of having to live with her very unwanted masculinity, but it would be a long haul from the first roll of that snowball before the gay community finally made they're stand for equality at the Inn we now know as stonewall.

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Oliver Cromwell said to his portrait artist , Paint me warts and all he had the skin of and old toad after his death his body was exhumed and hung at Tyburn then his head was decapitated and placed outside Westminster palace the parliament he'd spilt so much blood to put in place. I've purposely placed the old archaic English terms into rural colloquial Yorkshire speech which in certain communities is still in common use today .

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A poem for Katy on reception who drives ever man crazy by giving them a glimpse of the promised land only then to watch gleefully as they walk towards her straight into a paradise of quicksand .

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The loss of a lion's mane is similar to that of a man's hair as it recedes they both become a little timid and tame loosing pride and prowess both these mammals are now out of the mating game .

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Covid 19 as seen through the eyes of a squirrel watching them  fighting for scraps from the dustbins whilst under lock down ,they appear so confident without us , I think possibly the only thing they'd missed about our absence is possible the leftovers of Ben and Jerry's ice cream .

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A poem i wrote for the fire and brimstone preacher who baptised me in an ice water stone trough a wild religious Celt with raven hair alabaster skin and husky dog blue eyes a true blood line of the ancient Bretagne .

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The human hunter gatherer brain is so very hard to truth train but maybe not if you start using the new silicon scopolamine dream and drip feed it daily with some digital dopamine served up from our omnipresent Turing machine.

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A musing about giving your offspring a strong polysyllabic sounding name something to inspire them to aspire towards fortune and fame .

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