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  • happier ever after

    happier ever after

    Happily ever after? Isn’t that theairily never fairy tale let down thatpast overt set down left you to drowngiven over to the boredrum of living forever in frozen animation? setting aside the invisible avalanche of broken promises backfilled by theinevitable gaslighting punctuated by theinward silences for years till the final byword.afterwards amongst the rubble,that’s me…

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  • Small talk makes the man(osphere)

    Small talk makes the man(osphere)

    I lie awake and wait and hope… That I won’t have to memorise, Footy scores and cricket stats, Weather charts and car parts, Rehashed advice and cliched epithets…

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  • That Banned Phrase (For those in Queensland (Australia))

    That Banned Phrase (For those in Queensland (Australia))

    That Banned Phrase (For those in Queensland)

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  • Comfort

    Comfort

    There’s no contorting reply, Not even an empty echo, Just the absorption of silence. I call out and my words – suffocate ? – before I draw breath leaving me wondering… will this warmth be now receding… But perhaps it’s because, you’re holding me – so closely, and quietly – that i never felt there…

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  • The hidden secret word

    I like you more than you like me unless… you are once again – so perfectly – correcting me.

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  • No to the child…yes to the adult

    It was 1994. April had passed and May was ending. And I couldn’t get a job in Brisbane. Later I found out why. But surprisingly that was not the worst that had happened that year.

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