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April Flurry

Being Santa

Birthday

Brush Strokes

Byronic

City of Dreams

Cook and Drive

Do A Little, Leave A Lot

Ed Cases

Egg

Girl With One Track Mind (Sexhunters)

Glory Sealed

Haiku Firework

Hangover

Holiday Camp

I Fell in Love on the Northern Line

I Fought The Law and I Won

Jack Dove (Canto 1)

January Blue

Job Sonnet

Jury Service

Letter to February

Lewes (Till I Die)

Loving You

Madhouse

Meat Elegy

My Best (Wasn't Good Enough)

Odd Ends

Our Neighbours

Ownsome Valentine

Persian Sailing

Probably Not

Road Kill

Salsa

Saturday Night at the J H Tavern

Slam Door

Smoke In The Night

Snowscape

The Fight

The Last Word

The Liger

Whilst on Lose Hill

Women



Image of film star James Dean Byronic
You were the greatest of your time,
For brio, wit and gusto galore,
Deep sensibility distilled your rhymes,
An enchanted public cried out for more,
Till they caught wind of alleged crimes,
Seducing your sister with no qualms at all,
And loving young chaps with all your soul,
Yes, you were mad, bad and dangerous to know.

A century on, there was another man
Of mass appeal and cherubic face,
'Down to the Five 'n' Dime', Jimmy Dean,
Who like you early quit the race,
After a brilliant and spectacular run,
Two kindred spirits leading with haste
Lives so thrilling and so full,
Letting no man treat you like a fool.

Rebels without cause, Don Juans,
You took chances and had a ball,
Breaking the mould with your movies and poems,
Oft winning the hearts of one and all,
Crafting your arts to last an aeon,
Living every moment till Fate's callous call,
Your deaths came so young, it seems obscene:
Lord George Byron and James Byron Dean.

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