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Vancouverite Metropolitan Hellscape, part 1 of 5

...(prelude) 
 
  the buzzing of the evening insects 
  presage evil ! 

  here are black wolves ! here are ghosts and fiends 
  and here are blackest of demons ! 
  
  and black be the murk ton...

Cooper Clarke Back Beat

...So house proud
Yet nowt inside
This Terrace house
But family

Mum outside
Dressed up in her pinny
Gabby Anny
Gossiping over washing line
With nosy nextdoor neighbor

Proudly polishing
The...

It Dawns On Me

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I wake up next to no one right at dawn
to check for late night texts that don't exist
The paperboy throws news toward the lawn
and moves on, even though...

Double Play - Part 1

...There is a story ‘bout Casey, that is but incomplete
It tells of simple ball and bat and Mighty’s ignoble feat
There we learned of failure and the storied Mudville name
Here we’ll learn what happe...

Aristocratic Newsboy

...They start their jobs at age so young
And bring the news as they are stung
But one would think who would employ
A rich, affluent paperboy?

And such a sight means prejudice
It makes the crowd i...

The Paperboy

...I come and I go.
	No one sees me
		but the wind.
I come and I go.
	No one hears me
		but the wind.
I'm here and I'm there.
	No one knows where I am
		but the wind.
I'm there and I'm here.
	...

The Mirror of Time

...18/04/2017
Mirror Of Time

 
Surrounded by skeletons, 
All just a' running  and fast, 
Occupying their moments and minds., 
Big time,
Regrets of the past.., 
To stop themselves espying.., 
...

Things Have Changed

...Things Have Changed
By Robert (Bob) Moore

When I was young, the doctor, came around if I got sick
gave me a pill, or needle, and that would do the trick
but thing have changed, and now we ring,...

The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots I

...Cluttering above huddled rooftops
Of sprawling villages 
And shy provincial towns;
Rising sharply amidst swooping
Declinations;
Hesitating when gathering at the
Tangled woodland perimeters of
...

Circumstantial Evidence 2

...The police continued their investigation and were
extremely puzzled. They couldn't figure out how
those small footprints found by the window be
possibly responsible for the disappearance  of an ei...

Toro

...Toro was waiting anxiously at the local
dog shelter, with sad lonely eyes. He paced
back and forth, as the days passed him by.

   If I wasn't a little Chihuahua, maybe they
would choose me then...

Paperboy

...The cold changes
the weight of my steps.
Each door opens with glass.

Dogs bark in circles.
Milkfloats whine in electric.

My parka tired with old dirt.
The early moon carelessly ignored.
My...

A New Drug Device

...A new Drug Device
A wife in tough labor pain was advised 
By a doctor to try new drug device
To shift pain, a quarter
To the child’s father
Husband consenting, she took the pill thrice.

The h...

Eternal Breath

...With bicycles and a big shoulder sling bag
You were there, at the other side of my fence
Throwing the paper toward me with a smile
Awarded me with a wonder-stricken time lag

I remember, you were...

Who Knows Me

...Who knows me
Who calls my name
What do they want, its all the same
Whether friend, lover or paperboy
They all want me on the floor...

The elderly lady in her garden next door
glances as I go ...

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