Out the Gate
Mounting my bike everything happens so quickly that I manage to keep my balance without pedalling. The bad woman’s daughter descending the staircase, smoking a cigarette, kicks the little dog that snaps at her heel, almost knocking down waitress Deborah (‘The greyhound’), who is darting up behind me. Synchronously, the cat woman opens the boot of her car to take out the sack of Cha-cha granules. The ferals are milling around, at least a dozen of them. Meanwhile, Francis, the ancient rugby fan, who I haven’t seen for a belle lurette, and thought perhaps was dead, is sounding the horn, impatiently. I add to the confusion by zig-zagging through the scrum.
The electrician couldn’t find the doorbell and knocked. But as there was a gale blowing I didn’t hear him. So I’m still in the dark. He came and went like the wind.
The way I fix things is I do not break them.
I have the arrogance of a master criminal without the skills to go with it.
Swings and Swings
Arrogance is an effective escape from a boring conversation, but you pay for it in hate.
Evil Communication
I don’t know French, but the French know me.
Larry
Happy as Lazarus.
Cut-off
I’ve written the dead out of my will and testament.
The local travel agent lost her job, but has found continuity of employment
‘Most good writers fail from lack of character rather than intelligence.’
Artistic Temper
Give me the sketch of a smile.
‘I bought the poet’s silence with filthy lucre but the ingrate done gone died on me before I could use it.’
Lit flit 1
My readers need to be talented
Lit flit 2
Having confidence in your writing is the first step to self-indulgence.
Lit flit 3
*
Killed his mother and gave himself up to his shrink.
Ha, ha. You never thought of DNA
The Devil you Know
Crime Passionnel
Nowadays you kill the children too.
*
The English have all the virtues and vices of an island
people, the Irish all the vices and virtues.
The Iron Curtain fell and was replaced by plastic.
Rain stops democracy.
As Gerald Depardieu received his Russian passport
from Putin he explained his tax-break move, ‘My father listened
to Radio Moscow’.
*
A Disasterous Friend
She sings like a nightingale with a worm in its mouth
Salvador Dali = Avida Dollars
The Truth
You tell lies to your friends, never to your enemies.
Losers
defend themselves by becoming angry.
Measured Response
I respect other people, but not their opinions.
Being Brave in Adversity
What else can you do?
Boethius Redux
When I was happy why didn’t I enjoy it?
Eco-bird
Mounting my bike everything happens so quickly that I manage to keep my balance without pedalling. The bad woman’s daughter descending the staircase, smoking a cigarette, kicks the little dog that snaps at her heel, almost knocking down waitress Deborah (‘The greyhound’), who is darting up behind me. Synchronously, the cat woman opens the boot of her car to take out the sack of Cha-cha granules. The ferals are milling around, at least a dozen of them. Meanwhile, Francis, the ancient rugby fan, who I haven’t seen for a belle lurette, and thought perhaps was dead, is sounding the horn, impatiently. I add to the confusion by zig-zagging through the scrum.
The electrician couldn’t find the doorbell and knocked. But as there was a gale blowing I didn’t hear him. So I’m still in the dark. He came and went like the wind.
The way I fix things is I do not break them.
I’m
sorely in need of a chronobiologist to fix my body clock.
I have the arrogance of a master criminal without the skills to go with it.
Swings and Swings
Arrogance is an effective escape from a boring conversation, but you pay for it in hate.
Evil Communication
I don’t know French, but the French know me.
Larry
Happy as Lazarus.
Cut-off
I’ve written the dead out of my will and testament.
The local travel agent lost her job, but has found continuity of employment
*
‘Most good writers fail from lack of character rather than intelligence.’
Artistic Temper
Give me the sketch of a smile.
‘I bought the poet’s silence with filthy lucre but the ingrate done gone died on me before I could use it.’
Lit flit 1
My readers need to be talented
Lit flit 2
Having confidence in your writing is the first step to self-indulgence.
Lit flit 3
*
Killed his mother and gave himself up to his shrink.
Ha, ha. You never thought of DNA
The Devil you Know
Crime Passionnel
The English have all the virtues and vices of an island
people, the Irish all the vices and virtues.
The Iron Curtain fell and was replaced by plastic.
As Gerald Depardieu received his Russian passport
from Putin he explained his tax-break move, ‘My father listened
to Radio Moscow’.
A Disasterous Friend
She sings like a nightingale with a worm in its mouth
Salvador Dali = Avida Dollars
The Truth
You tell lies to your friends, never to your enemies.
Losers
defend themselves by becoming angry.
Measured Response
I respect other people, but not their opinions.
Being Brave in Adversity
What else can you do?
Boethius Redux
When I was happy why didn’t I enjoy it?
Eco-bird
