Growing Pains
factory workers The owner of the second factory and wooden leg had a curious way of dealing with others. His mouth did not just contain a fag with brown spittle leaking, but mouth was also set...
View ArticleLetter to a Far Away Lover
The Pig’s Arms welcomes Miss Nom de Plume Am I in your arms – at least in your imagination? Are your fingers undoing my buttons as your lips caress my neck? Can you feel my hands under your shirt –...
View ArticleFable in Black (and White)
Crow Cries for his Lost White Feathers By Sean O ‘ Something of the Irish Kiss Tribute Band Submitted by Ern Malley’s Cat Back when not everything was as it is now, there was a band of four black and...
View ArticleThe Horse*
the old Onehunga School, Auckland, NZ By Christina Binning Wilson (aka Sandshoe) I have dreams to tell and you would have me quiet demureness your necessity I have dreams to sell and you would tell me...
View ArticleWho’s a clever boy, then ? Gooboy !
Thanks to Crikey and First Dog on the Moon - DO Subscribe Best in Show We have the greatest Moon Dog on Earth He fills bleak days with riot and mirth He never rolls over or has to beg Just pisses on...
View ArticleLaddie Come Home
First Dog on the Moon For days, it seems, we’ve lost our dog We wander round in hazy fog Our fear, it seems, – he’s run away He’s spat the bone, No more Dog play. We wouldn’t give him up for quids Sad...
View ArticleWhat you need and what you want
On my way (unsigned) Poem and Graphic by Sandshoe What you need and what you want (A Personal Poem to uneducated indifference) …To be spoken as a rhyming riddle… What you need and what you want might...
View ArticleLait to the Debate
Lait Painting and Poem by Lehan Winifred Ramsay achieve approve arise backlash barrage beach-side better brands business car oil cast cheesecake cogent collapse commercial complacency conformity...
View ArticleMalcolm Turnbull – a Poet for PM !
What rough beast slinks towards the Prime Ministership ? from Brisbane Times Friday 19th July… “Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has played down a new opinion poll showing that the Coalition could win an...
View ArticleHung One On Whitman
Story by Neville Cole I’ll admit it. I tied one on with Hung One On down the Pub last night. As I recall, it all started amicably enough. All the locals were there celebrating the 5th Anniversary....
View ArticleHaiku Trilogy – the Bee
The bee staggers home exhausted from the harvest dinner and dancing Laden with pollen he pirouettes on his heel and dusts himself off You’ve been drinking and flying again ! says the fat queen No...
View ArticleThe 2nd Email: Love’s 1st Send All
Story by Neville Cole (Good to see you, sport) As many people know – or at least those people out there with access to Google who have ever been curious about such things know – the 1st email was...
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