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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 detained British sailor smoking on Iranian television

Persian Sailing

Welcome home,
Britain's sons and daughter
after your botched 'intelligence' mission
in disputed Persian waters.
We're glad you're dandy and fine,
Your souk suits looked kinda hip,
When the gunboat came, did you wonder:
where was your mother ship?
What a simply awful ordeal you've been through,
The Allies would never treat suspects that way;

we Westerners were oh-so-civilised
at Abu Ghraib Jail and Guantanamo Bay.
Welcome home, Lady Sailor,
to your green and pleasant land,
Follow the spindoctor's tip: if you feel a failure,
rlog your sob story for a hundred grand!
Welcome back, our dearhearts,
after your masterclass in geography,
and enjoying a Warholian fifteen minutes
of fame on Anglo-Persian TV.

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