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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 a man asleep beside almost-drunk glasses and a packet of cigarettes, hangover about to happen! Hangover

A life drowning in fluids and smoke,
breathing corpse of systems broke,

beer, wine, and spirits again,
unholy trinity to quell the strain

of existence stretched pillar t' post
striving to win; coping at most,

ruddy eyes, hammer drill in the head,
it is your dead weight concaving the bed,

last night's quest for relaxation
means toxins battle medication,

the real hangover's not of past fun
but resultant nightmares still to come,

every soul's private Play for Today,
recurring pain you can't booze away,

school bullies who never quit your head,
fears that keep you on the tread-

mill of pain and drunken laughter,
The Night Before, The Morning After,

if every living moment's sacred,
why are so very many wasted?

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