I'm sitting at the back of the North Stand, watching from the heavens at what gets played out on this muddy, failing pitch - but yet once again Togher you collect the ball in your own half, shimmy past two midfielders, nutmeg an ailing defender and curl the ball into the top corner of a net from thirty yards out. The crowd go bongo...and while the linesman may be flagging for improper use of a 'semicolon' the referee overrules him and gives the goal. 1-0

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I like this John, start to finish excellent.X

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lovely stuff, in an I've been there I was that man but I couldn't have written it' sort of way

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Can't add anymore to what's already been said - excellent stuff.
Cx

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Hi John. Loved this one. Realism and mundane start and a dscriptive middle and then a perfect end. The last line is one of these perfect phrases that you think someone else must have used or you may be remembering reading it before. This linked with the clowns face the spiral and eraser images ties everything together in this gentle gem. Win x

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this is a great poem john, and a description given earlier, it is succint.

i worked on an art project for college on the sketches of andre breton whose art looked at this kind of imaginative thought-dissociative drawing.
i used my doodles from the back of the yellow pages where i would scribble away many hours of phone conversation
there were some pretty black spiders and repetitive triangles that must have come from a conversation with authority of some sort...

i like your reference to the losing of illusion, of sight fading with night...changed perspectives.

brilliant xx

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Fantastic poem, John. The theme is immense, yet captured so succinctly with the power of a blow in the face that I just gulped, as though I had been hit myself.

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You are quite possibly right Ann. It's just that I don't associate that mundanity of conversation with a girlfriend/boyfriend relationship - much more a long term married thing - and even then... don't think I ever regaled my ex husband with the contents of my stomach for the day. Hey ho - I do my best to interpret...

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Very intriguing, John.
What I am most focused on is his 'chaotic spiral without end', and the last verse:
'As I put down the phone
I slowly erase you
like the darkness rubs out the day.'

I see these as signs that he wants out... The chaotic spiral without end represents how he sees his life, and 'I slowly erase you' represents his wanting to get rid of her somehow... Hmmm...

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Surely the two people are on the phone to each other so there's no confusion Isobel? I'm thinking that the chap is so familiar with the (presumably) lady on the other end of the line he is picturing her with her favourite cushion etc, and knows her so well he can imagine exactly what she is drawing. As to the stars in the eyes, they are the eyes of a clown - so maybe not so good!

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I've thought about the phone some more. I suppose you must be mentally disconnecting - that is probably quite a significant line.

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This is really good John. I like the subtle way the doodles highlight the underlying currents under the mundane conversation. Very ominous that she sees you with stars in your eyes, and you "slowly erase" her when its finished!
Cate xx

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I really like this a lot. You've implied so much about two people and their relationship, just by their doodles. x (Mine are always spirals coming off more spirals. God knows what that means about me!)

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I prefer this to 'Paper' - same underlying theme but expressed more subtly.
Not sure how it has ended up being her on the phone and then you putting it down at the end. The very different perceptions of each other are neatly described in the doodle idea though.
It works well as a poem. x

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