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The Farrand Chapelette was gathering dust in the shadowy porch of Marsden Church. And was due to be bundled off to the skip. Or was mine, for a song, if I wanted it. Sunlight...Read Full Lyrics

I am very bothered when I think of the bad things I have done in my life. Not least that time in the chemistry lab when I held a pair of scissors by the blades and played the h...Read Full Lyrics

I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself to the National Health. I'm sure they can use the jellies and tubes and syrups and glues, the web of nerves and veins, the loaf of brain...Read Full Lyrics

I'd been tired, under the weather, but the ansaphone kept screaming: One more sick-note, mister, and you're finished. Fired. I thumbed a lift to where the car was parked. A Vau...Read Full Lyrics

Think, two things on their own and both at once The first, that exercise in trust, where those in front stand with their arms spread wide and free-fall backwards, blind, and tho...Read Full Lyrics

Batman, big shot, when you gave the order to grow up, then let me loose to wander leeward, freely through the wild blue yonder as you liked to say, or ditched me, rather, in th...Read Full Lyrics

My father thought it bloody queer, the day I rolled home with a ring of silver in my ear half hidden by a mop of hair. "You’ve lost your head. If that’s how easily you’re ...Read Full Lyrics

The elf said to Kevin, "You're probably wondering why I'm sitting here at your breakfast table this morning, helping myself to your condiments. Kevin, I'm here to make you a very s...Read Full Lyrics

We walk to the ward from the badly parked car with your grandma taking four short steps to our two. We have brought her here to die and we know it. You check her towel. soap and...Read Full Lyrics

Mother, any distance greater than a single span requires a second pair of hands. You come to help me measure windows, pelmets, doors, the acres of the walls, the prairies of the...Read Full Lyrics