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Oct 2019
8:49pm, 31 Oct 2019
581 posts
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Scorge
i'm a lazy twat.
so i enjoy a haiku.
is that it? lovely!
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Oct 2019
9:07pm, 31 Oct 2019
41,834 posts
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Diogenes
Do you think I should show him my poems?
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Oct 2019
11:08pm, 31 Oct 2019
41,882 posts
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McGoohan
Yes. Did he look at your etchings? Did he look like his etchings?
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Oct 2019
11:19pm, 31 Oct 2019
41,837 posts
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Diogenes
No pipe, but very dry. He had quite hairy fingers.
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Nov 2019
8:57am, 1 Nov 2019
41,891 posts
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McGoohan
Worrying if he shook hands with someone with similarly hairy hands: it might have been like velcro
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Nov 2019
9:59am, 1 Nov 2019
41,849 posts
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Diogenes
Brian was not
Just as you’d expect
He was taller, yet shorter
And quite circumspect.
He was younger than many
But older than most
His hair was eclectic
Augmented with toast.
He talked in a whisper
That rattled one’s fillings
and swore us to silence
About all the killings.
He read from his books
And an old Yellow Pages
Starting at A
It went on for ages.
He beguiled us with whimsy
Then filled us with dread
“All of these people
Are sadly now dead.
No time tonight
For questions and answers
I’m not signing books”
There were uneasy glances.
Instead of a biro
He drew out a gun
“I’ve got all your money
Now I must run.”
He picked up his satchel
Laden with dosh
and left us all staggered
We’d thought he’d be posh.
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Nov 2019
10:17am, 1 Nov 2019
21,527 posts
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Maclennane
superb
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Nov 2019
11:07am, 1 Nov 2019
41,850 posts
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Diogenes
I mentioned you to Brian and we had a brief conversation about Tanita Tikaram
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Nov 2019
11:41am, 1 Nov 2019
282 posts
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Peregrinator
^^^ "The Departure of Brian Bilston" - up there with Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" I think.
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Nov 2019
3:06pm, 1 Nov 2019
41,857 posts
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Diogenes
A genuine 1 star review of You Took The Last Bus Home on Amazon:
"An excellent collection spoiled by the final page.
I really enjoyed the poems in this book. I'd heard Refugees used to great effect at a Primary School Assembly. What really spoiled it for me was the mention of Eric Gill on the very last page. Why, I wonder, couldn't some other typeface have been used? Or why did it seem important to draw our attention to Perpetua? The man had sex with his teenage daughters, for goodness sake!"*
*To be clear, this allegation is made against Gill, not Bilston.
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