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Autobiography

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Coming apart like stitches
Memories break off
As you grow older
Dissolving into skeletons
Drained of fact.

Stripping emotions
Into stark instrumentals
Confusing Sian
The first girl you kissed
With Helen, the second.

Diminishing the 8 years
Working at Great Universal
Your first job
When then you wondered
If it would ever end.

Padlocked in broken gasps
All the way out
Carrying you constantly
Through your 3 years
At Bolton University.

Woven in amazement
Even now after that
Advising people at the Job Centre
Who recognise you
Ten years after you left.

Replacing the years
And all of the jobs
(never forgetting all of your partners)
that followed like footprints,

fragmented following Diabetes
which crashed into your life
like a train crash

tracing tears caked around your heart

constantly creating new
dramas slightly off key

dislocated across
half built promenades
in your imagination

blown apart every morning
in broken storms
looking at tablets lined up
in a row  
refusing to give up.

 

(From my upcoming next solo collection 'From the Diabetic Ward' which is a bit off before you ask)

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Gray Nicholls

Wed 19th Aug 2015 13:02

wow.

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raypool

Tue 4th Aug 2015 22:29

Lots of powerful text , and a developing and ongoing theme to unravel with a sense of the pain and anguish.
Great stuff !

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Nigel Astell

Mon 3rd Aug 2015 16:27

Tracing tears caked around your heart wow!

But the main thread of your life is woven for all to see this poem seems to sum up all the ups and downs.

Can't wait to hear it next week mate.

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