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  • “we look with our round eyes at rooms
    ignore what builds in the corners ”
  • “Post-it™ yellow is the navy-blue of yellows ”
  • “I’ve had back pain on and off for years;
    it eases with a lie-down or a bit of yoga. ”
  • “I’ve had depression on and off for years;
    it eases with a bike ride or a bit of the Bunnymen. ”
  • “Anyway, this is about Bruce Chatwin. ”
  • “One man dies in Leipzig of Ebola, which has
    killed around four thousand in this outbreak.
    Four thousand ones, ”
  • “a flag for discrimination, dyed pink. ”
  • “Albert Speer knew more
    when he commissioned all those series of Jim’ll Fix it  ”
  • “I got back on my bike and on with my life. ”
  • “He couldn’t sit still, couldn’t commit, ”
  • “Although he did commit to writing. ”
  • “Hard road, soft body: blood. ”
  • “I went to London and got on with my life. ”
  • “You tease and shock; you surprised me with words
    I took the wrong way.  ”
  • “reaching instead for lined white and final words. ”
  • “Finite, I put something plain on paper ”
  • “A motif of dividing lines, radiating
    from a centre, sure of its power.  ”
  • “like tidemarks on the keys
    of an old computer in a grubby internet cubicle  ”
  • “other people zoom in,
    frame their clean square gaze to trim ”
  • “The year ahead tailed off,
    ended at a flat earth’s edge. ”
  • “I should care. I like the margins. ”
  • “And now I write the tunes. ”
  • “‘Sing if you’re glad we’ve swung to the right’. ”
  • “And a day of sun was all it took ”
  • “fixed with staples, bound to a twin page
    further back or forward in your life.  ”

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