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Two Furking Cat Poems

18/05/201912/12/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

This post two furking poems about cats; next post one poem about Two Cats F**king.

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Planet Caramel

12/05/201915/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Some thoughts on that lovely stuff known as caramel:

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Summer Lovin’ (call me a cab)

07/04/201912/05/2019 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

A short story about the memories a beautiful summer can bring. Continue reading →

London: a Tardis in Reverse

24/03/201915/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / 6 Comments

It’s only with hindsight that I realise what a ‘playground‘ London was for me from the mid-eighties (when becoming old enough to do as I pleased) to the late nineties; when changes started running so deep they were impossible to miss and/or ignore.

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What a Waste

02/03/201915/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

I used to scroll past half-decent posts without so much as a meh. Now it’s me doing the posting, I want the world to care.

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Catastrophe

16/02/201915/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

A sad, tragic, dismal culmination of events that saw defeat snatched from the jaws of victory; the gods of genius not so much unfavourable . . . more kept at bay by a needy beast desperately determined to fulfil its own agenda. Continue reading →

I Don’t Understand

03/02/201915/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Following on from Perfect, nobody is; all of us have something we don’t understand. But is that what’s meant when the words are said? Continue reading →

Perfect

27/01/201915/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

To some degree everything is the result of anxiety; perfection isn’t so much sought, but fraught after:

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My Big Fat Status Update

20/01/201915/09/2020 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

We all know someone who posts them, but never do it ourselves . . . Continue reading →

Dieting 17th Century Style

01/01/201920/01/2019 / N. P. Ryan / Leave a comment

Thinking of going on a diet but not sure whether you can face the commitment/lack of overindulgence?  Perhaps considering things from a 17th Century perspective might help make up thy mind?

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Drinking in a dingy bar by the sea, crumpled postcard from Her and World’s Biggest Ray Zero for company; then the son of a starts saying I’m cursed. Praise Be to lighting-up another smoke. Inhale, taste a foul brand: the Hex She put on me. Promised Heaven, delivered a dive nightclub Hell. Thank the Lord for liquor loving hot chicks. Though nothing compares to how it’ll feel catching up with Her.

Wanted a quick bit of business and gone. Bath had other ideas. First, battered and left for dead after a hundred heart-breaking truths. Then a Police Chief with a saggy old treasure chest of secrets to keep needs a scapegoat. Dumps me in the middle of corruption so deep it eases through bone to suck greedy at marrow. With every gun pointing my way, Hell, not even He’s gonna get me outta this one.

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