Wednesday This wasn’t the first time I had been hauled into a police station. There had been a drunken streak bet with Sherry during our college days. I had been busted after I tripped over some hydrangeas and fallen backwards into someone’s property... Sherry had tried to pull me up but in her drunken state she fell on top of me. Our howls of loud drunken laughter had woken the owner. The house owners had been of the pur...

You hit me again todayIt was over an unwashed plateIt stung and my face throbbed My teeth hurt where they had chattered hard together I said nothing and went to my room to cryYou grabbed me by my hair today And pulled me around the room Because you had a bad day Vicious in your malice You took your anger out on meYou whipped me with your belt today Slashing and thrashing until I was screaming Begging you to stop ‘You dese...

'What did people do in the movies to lose someone following them?' I wondered. I envisioned a big car chase and a few flipped cars culminating with me half naked shooting a gun out of the window. Bloody overactive imagination! I resolved to stop watching so many cheesy action movies. I sped up a little and turned down, watching the SUV follow me in the mirror. I exited onto the motorway. I put my foot down and sped up. So...

I am dividing this into separate parts as it is quite longPresent Day: Whenever I imagined dying it was always in bed surrounded by my whole extended family (including imaginary children and grandchildren). Not getting whacked by some fat English man called Maurice in a badly fitted suit who was under the mistaken impression he was a character in a Guy Ritchie movie. I could hear my dead mother’s voice in my head berating...

The Aimless PoemWithout MeaningAmbiguousFormulaic –lessI’m taunted by your lethargy, aimless poemUnder appreciatedLacking in purposeSubstance -lessThat is why I like you, aimless poemLike an empty grinOr words which tumble out in a non sequitur mannerThere is beauty in that sometimesYou stick your tongue out At epic poems of meaningThat thunder on pompously for hoursYou roll your eyesAt sickly sweet poems of loveLittered...

I want to capture this moment in time forever perfectlyThe day I fell in love with you, written word Enthusing about mondegreens and gadzookeryFlaunting and revelling in my vocabularyEvery syllable tumbles down like notes in a love songThat my brain can’t help humming toAddicted to using alliteration and allusionsThe soothing sound of softly said similesHidden depths and layers of mysterious meaningYour complexity and sim...

My inner meI wear my humour like a maskEvery joke and funny story toldHides the inner meI wear my sarcasm like a shieldEvery jibe and verbal thrustProtects the inner meI wear my charm like a cloakEvery vivacious smile and wordCamouflages the inner meI wear my bravado like a swordEvery swagger and proud retortGuards the inner meMy inner me loves peace and quietAnd analyze things for hoursMy inner me loves to weep during sa...

Steeped in furious misery I sat on the beach gazing out at the seaEmpty except for the last few stragglers Trying to desperately cling onto the remnants of a dying dayThe sparkling sun reflecting against a cerulean blue seaEvery foamy hiss and swirl of waveReflected my inner turmoil Brooding, angry and heartbroken with the worldWishing our toxic relationship was healthierSick to death of the world and my lifeWishing that...