Which reminds me. He appeared
at noon, asking for water. He’d wa
after losing his job, leaving me a
and locking his dog in the coal bu
We made him a bed

Five pounds fifty in change, exact
a library card on its date of expi
A postcard stamped,
unwritten, but franked,
a pocket size diary slashed with a

Anyone here had a go at themselves
for a laugh? Anyone opened their w
with a blade in the bath? Those in
at the back, listen hard. Those at
in the know, those of us who have,

Here on the Hard, you’re welcome
there’s a flat fee of a quid for p
And wandering over the dunes, who
for the view: an endless estate of
kept out of the bay by the dam-wal

It begins as a house, an end terra
in this case
but it will not stop there. Soon i
an avenue
which cambers arrogantly past the

He splashed down in rough seas off
I watched through a coin-op telesc
with a lollipop stick as a trawler
of the waves and ferried him back
Control on a trading estate near t

Thank you for waiting.
At this moment in time, we’d like
Thank you for waiting.
We now extend our invitation to E
Military personnel in uniform may

Eight-year-old sitting in Bramhal
shoes scuffed from kicking a stone
too young for a key but old enough
to walk the short mile back from s
You’ve spied your mother down in t

Just how it came to rest where it
miles out, miles from the last far
was a fair question. Dropped by hu
or aeroplane perhaps for some reas
put down as a cairn or marker, the

It seemed an unlikely match. All
grinding its teeth in a plastic sl
nose-down from a hook in the darkr
under the hatch in the floor. When
it knocked back a quarter-pint of