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A Case Of The Mondays, On A Tuesday
Good morning glum one,it’s a great day to be bounding through life with as much of a smile as you can salvage.The world’s a little savage,and the passage of time is sublimely snappy, when you really don’t need it to be,but you are awake,and you are breathing,and that’s something.
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I Know That I’m Not Supposed To Be Here
I want to talk to people,to leak onto their fingertips, through dried ink,to be carried around by absent minded hands for the rest of the day,stuck in the back of their mind, or the back of their throat, like a strong flavour or an even stronger memory that hurts so badly to think about. I…
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A Letter To The Girl From 365 Days Ago
Hello beautiful, You’re not dead, yet, and that’s a good thing. You also haven’t wished for it in a long time, and that’s also a good thing. Would you like to know why? I’ll tell you, in time, but first, we have some other matters to discuss. We’ll start with January. It is just about…
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The World’s Greatest Amateur Actress
I tried to tell her that I was sorry,but she was distracted,her eyes glittering as she gazed in silent awe at my jewellery.My mouth was dry,no matter how many overpriced cocktails I put on my credit card.I saw her eye the packet of cigarettes that was peeking from my open handbag,and I instinctively tutted,like a…
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I Will Not Grow Old, I Will Become A Ghost
Soft, swirling curls in a knot,jotting down the world around me from my back garden,as autumn’s chill beckons to winter,and the sunset spills across my freckled face, at four PM.This is what I will do, when I am old (if I get there). I look at my grandmother,and I know that nobody could love me…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 