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it was an accident

i was tearing the wings from eagles

while you caught mayflys

with your forked tongue

 

try grief so thick

it crawls between your legs

then come home

honey pie

 

lets dodge

lamps and crockery

like we used to

when it was raw

 

◄ umeboshi/autumn

the only answer we will ever need ►

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Stu Buck

Wed 1st Mar 2017 11:16

cheers both, lovely praise! i'll take blokes sylvia plath suki! might be the title of my inevitably best selling autobiography.

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suki spangles

Wed 1st Mar 2017 05:27

You're the blokes' Sylvia Plath, but better.

Suki

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Paul Waring

Tue 28th Feb 2017 21:52

Stu, how superbly and succinctly you tell us about the flip side of passion. Powerful stuff.

Paul

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Stu Buck

Tue 28th Feb 2017 07:59

hi david
i am quite well thanks, life is immeasurably more enjoyable now my new boiler is fitted and i can no longer see my breath.
the title refers to the phrase often used by victims of domestic abuse. i wrestled with 'it was an accident' or 'i slipped and fell' but decided on the former. the title ties in with the final verse, the dodging of lamps and crockery, back when there was enough passion to want to throw things...

(not biographical by the way!)

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