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A Postcard for Naomi Osaka
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Now with time on your hands, I recommend the Horse Chestnut Trees in the Place Émile Goudeau, 18th arrondissement. Alight at Abbesses, Metropolitan Metro line Montmartre. The dearly departed Saint Denis, decapitated, buried and beatified, gave this latter day communist commune its name, Martyrs Hill. Something in that reminds me of you. So whilst your are sojourning  at Le Bateau Lavoir, where Picasso spent his early years, reflect on how  blindness is their Frugal Repast ...

Alex
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To a dedicated groundsman ...

Ultimate Reflexion
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What can I say about this?  Perhaps that I am not in that place myself - just yet.  I can well empathise with people who are ...

This I and this “I”
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On the theme of hunger: two perspectives on I and "I" : (a recycled poem) ...

A Fanciful Ode
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It is all imagination, of course. (But isn't everything?)  ...

A con is a con
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Subtle ways of getting your own back? ...

Dance of the Giants (a wedding toast)
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Actually gave a version of this best man's toast at my best friend's wedding ...

The River
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Supratik's poem 'I will remind myself', has caused me to reflect on what I believe, as far as the great mystery of life and death in concerned. At present I'm not working on my poems, but I wrote down the lines below last night.  ...