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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 to illustrate working for the aristocracy
Job Sonnet

New pinstripes my frame adorn,
Cufflinks see the light of day,
Tranquility Tea calms me down,
A Routefinder print-out guides the way
to the big house on an old estate,
where I pass His Lordship's tests,
My life, my skills I must re-state,
Astonishingly I beat the rest
of the field, and return to lunch with His Grace
to find it's the wrong date,
Barely hiding my crimson face,
I quit this one-horse race and speculate
That working for the aristocracy
ain't the noblest course for me.

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