April Prompts 7226-7250

Tuesday, April 19th, 06:40

7226 I like to look at army-surplus

7227 Father, are you my father?

7228 As you were conceived

7229 The dirty filthy trenches in his head

7230 Expect the attack at any time, especially while taking high-tea

7231 Boom!

7232 About thirty bob and a favour

7233 Germans, Gurkhas, Shoe-laces

7824 You might call this joy, but it’s complicated

7235 Fuck for the Queen!

7236 Does the rag and bone man scrub up, wear a tie to the pub?

7237 Smuggling dogs

7238 Stories about my father on the walls of urinals

7239 The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck

7240 After he was dead we reassessed things

7241 Jam by the gallon, butter by the barrel

7242 Oh Captain! My Captain! (Please Fuck Off)

7243 The smell of burning rubber, and something else

7244 The other side of the wire

7245 Bones, when boiled, slapped into books

7246 The smile of a former SS General

7247 We will survive, we shall overcome. We cannot forget,

7248 Dark men in darker alleys

7249 Nearly midnight, downhill

7250 Four kids, three balloons

April Prompts 4701-4725

Friday April 15th 08:39

4701 From the Lonely to those alone

4702 Waiting to be sick

4703 Breakfast with Mario

4704 Who is you favourite Beatle and why?

4705 Goldilocks Jones

4706 Exercises with the C-Word

4707 Annual Convention for Serial-Killers, Brighton

4708 The Price of Inequality

4709 A Book of Shirt Stories

4710 The Sound of Sirens, too late

4711 Ah, Perfume!

4712 Digging up Churchill

4713 Why the Surgeon hates the doctor

4714 I never promised you a rose-garden

4715 A very special offer from Pizza Express

4716 The books I never read

4717 With Cedric on Spike Island

4718 Good Night and Good Riddance

4719 Small Pieces of Perfect, Exquisite Light

4720 Investigating the well. We will get to the bottom of it.

4721 Lawrence of Belgravia

4722 If This is a Woman

4723 My Commonwealth of Thieves

4724 How to Speak Money

4725 When, at the end you realise you should never have started

March Prompts 7176-7200

Thursday, April 14th, 06:20

7176 Under dark Vestments, Behind the Burkha

7177 It does not follow that I wish to be here

7178 A connoisseur of rubbish

7179 The Smell of Burning Plastic

7180 How is the heart, Jack?

7181 A Postcard a day, never missing

7182 Paper blown across streets, into houses

7183 Making Jam

7184 LACW Hall, S

7185 The dark fat queen

7186 The Rag & Bone Man, Goldish, Balloons

7187 This is my very tiny home

7188 The Honolulu Penny

7189 “Listen, very carefully. I will say this only once.”

7190 A Bad Back

7191 Made in Hong Kong

7192 Bicycle, Onions, Beret

7193 Husband, Wife, Dog, Car, Child

7194 The Art and Craft of Patience Strong

7195 Mrs Mangle’s Secret Ambition

7196 The shadowy streets, the corners, the alleyways

7197 The sad demise of Jeremiah Hawkins, JP

7198 Ladies, Gentlemen, The wanker in the Back

7199 Angels in soft white dresses

7200 Where I would prefer not to be

March Prompts 7151-7175

Wednesday, April 13th, 13:00

7151 I got this

7152 “Let me die a young man’s death”

7153 Brave New Blackpool

7154 He’s a bit “Sir Francis Drake”

7155 My favourite leather belt

7156 The way insects hit the windscreen

7157 Buck Off

7158 Now, not next week is our saddest moment

7159 It’s coffee, at least it’s brown

7160 SPIN!

7161 Her life after sunset

7162 Wanted Rich Sex-Maniac with Library

7163 Lock, Stock, Barrel, Hammer

7164 Rain light fists on a Tin Roof

7165 The Zen of Coffee-Making

7166 From my bed I hear it, hear it.

7167 She wanted dogs, but had babies as a substitute

7168 Go With the Flow if you like, Niagara

7169 A Lake like Mercury

7170 Job Half-Done and Proud

7171 Ways of dying disgracefully

7172 Girls with painted arms, rings on their toes

7173 India is a Foreign Country

7174 Leaving it in to soak

7175 No, this is cartilage, THAT’s bone

March Prompts 7126-7150

Wednesday, April 13th, 07:40

7126 My proud little boy; his proud little salute!

7127 I wouldn’t try to get there from yur

7128 Her soul was cracked and bleeding

7129 I am thinking of the click of glasses, the trickle of amber

7130 Or I could live, I suppose

7131 He is sort of impressive in a dead-Hitler way

7132 I would like to be an aged professor seduced by a student

7133 I’m bored. Can we copulate?

7134 Is it true Vaseline burns, hot-lips?

7135 Her heart was like a hot wet rat

7136 Kiss me! Kiss me! Share my pain!

7137 I could save Africa or buy a house in Croydon

7138 An evening with Ken Livingstone

7139 Dearest Mother, Will you just fuck off?

7140 I will put some French in a poem

7141 The Magic Cash-Dispenser

7142 NOT a good idea

7143 The Camel-Bollock Squashing Technique

7144 Truth Lenses

7145 As bent as a nine-bob note

7146 Wanna get bored together, complain about the heat?

7147 If I was normal, I’d —

7148 Never mind the fucking Elephant in the Room

7149 What about the body in the trunk?

7150 Things can only get better (excluding the million dead)

March Prompts 7101-7125

Tuesday, April 12th, 01:45

7101 We met at an ancient inn on the forest’s edge

7102 A shoe.

7103 The smell of earth uncovered

7104 When I nod my head, hit it.

7105 As the light flashes upon the river

7106 John Brown, eighty-eight, murderer

7107 Would Sir like his porridge?

7108 How nice we still meet and pretend not to hate each other

7109 I have known you too long, too well

7110 This is the field, this is the wind, this is the bending corn

7111 The elephant is a funny bird

7112 GRASS

7113 All those with itchy arses raise your hands

7114 Tell me about the buildings that were here

7115 Sometimes it is better to just be quiet

7116 Thirty-three Kilograms in 9 months

7117 The houses with gardens that ran into the river

7118 I could not be there so I sent a smile

7119 I don’t believe in ghosts: have seen three.

7120 I will speak slowly, as if important

7121 The man I killed is now my friend

7122 S.W.A.L.K.

7123 Priests and Other demons

7124 Ignore me. Ignore this. Ignore me saying ignore me.

7125 It is better for the widow to hammer in the nail

March Prompts 7076-7100

Monday, April 11th, 016:20

7076 The drums in the hills, soft, unceasing

7077 Nameless stones, forgotten messages

7078 That’s the thing with bombs

7079 The Blacksmith’s Son

7080 The Women around the fountain, the men at the well

7081 The tribes, their tents, the animals

7082 Time, Gentlemen, Please!

7083 The Dog and the dog’s dog

7084 After the Fair

7085 A Pox on the Queen of England

7086 The earth changes, dies

7087 Do not look in the mirror at night

7088 Persuade me!

7089 Uphill all the way there; uphill all the way back

7090 There is music, mother. Do you hear it?

7091 Horizontal, perpendicular, point, infinity

7092 I need something dark, something solid, a song

7093 A fine boot in the stirrup

7094 How a pair of brown eyes can undo a man

7095 I think your mother is Mad. I know you are

7096 Words tasting of brown sugar

7097 Mum, there’s a lion on the sofa

7098 Get me my fiddle, Martha!

7099 Workmanship, Craft, Art, Fine Art

7100 I will keep this soul, but will discard the body

March Prompts 7051-7075

Sunday, April 10th, 07:05

7051 What the President asks of us, nothing less

7052 I am not profiting from that fund

7053 Toys, Butterflies

7054 And the hearts of those who hate

7055 Built like a tank, voice like a grenade

7056 A Zinc Bucket

7057 I am troubled by the vastness and emptiness of things

7058 Goodbye Cruel World!

7059 Say something gentle and surprise me

7060 I did not have sexual relations with that woman

7061 We are nearing the finish line

7062 A little bit of Jesus

7063 You read The Daily Mail, The Telegraph

7064 The Terrorists Counts His Bombs

7065 The paleness of your skin as the love departs

7066 When the night sky is like a shiny shell

7067 Eight ironed pillowcases

7068 We are walking on bones

7069 I try not to kill insects, people

7070 The promise of the kind lie

7071 All the world’s a revolving stage

7072 We will open the eyes of the blind

7073 March!

7074 If I ever could hear you I would ignore you

7075 The weight in my bowels

Wednesday, April 6th, 10:00

7026 Thinks of music, of poetry, of moons.

7027 We would like you to come to the clinic for tests

7028 The Baker is married now

7029 Blodwen arrived at five-to-eight, flustered

7030 Bucket, Spade, Condom

7031 Killing time in Wimbledon

7032 What happened that time in The Lakes

7033 There are not enough clichés here, please add some more

7034 He only lived five minutes away

7035 Putting things away fro a rainy day

7036 I am tired, I am tired, I am so very, very tired.

7037 Cousins

7038 Please bring a fresh sample of urine

7039 Poor Ute, sad Ute

7040 The severity of your systems

7041 Ha Bloody Ha!

7042 When even High-Vis is not enough

7043 Earphones

7044 Pissed off, in pain, stuck at a desk

7045 I need to get this over with asap

7046 Eighteen glasses, one broken

7047 With a thick finger, he cut the call

7048 Harold Hopkins, Probably Deceased

7049 Hiss

7050 When the pain-killers are not enough

March Prompts 7001-7025

Tuesday, April 5th, 06:00

7001 Folk Songs, ridiculous beards

7002 Almost done, but there is little satisfaction

7003 “Always remember the longer you live, the sooner you’re going to die.”

7004 The shssssnnnsh of cars passing in the rain

7005 Lard or Dripping?

7006 I would just like to love once more

7007 That, sister, was so good!

7008 Manhattan

7009 You have lit me up

7010 Give us this day our daily dead

7011 I see the stickiness of it all, the pointlessness

7012 Witches, bitches, me of ill repute

7013 Please, we cannot stop you, but this is not in our name

7014 Serpent, Bush, Apple iPhone

7015 Letters on paper, letters on screen

7016 Across the Aegean. Then sent back

7017 All are bone, are flesh, are water, are shit

7018 TRY LEFT

7019 Wimbledon, sans Tennis

7020 At least we are here, where are the shovels?

7021 We will never be newer

7022 I am too tired right now to contemplate it

7023 I have been here before. This is what I did.

7024 TRUCK

7025 I agree with the trees. The wind is too argumentative

March Prompts 6976-7000

Monday, April 4th, 07:30

6976 As we remember lovers and those who only took us.

6977 One day, perhaps, new bones, new skin

6978 NEEDLE

6979 Through a gap in the clouds, almost home

6980 I am trying to forget your face

6981 You cannot stand in a great forest without feeling the power

6982 The rich the rifle, the poor their bullets

6983 He was a serial killer, but spread it out for decency

6984 The rain on windows

6985 This is how fire is, glorious while it kills us

6086 I met myself

6987 The forest is hungry, mischievous

6988 What do they imagine is good? What do they read?

6989 Just dance, dance, and do not ever stop

6990 You have set me alight, thank-you

6991 This is the last one. You may have your hammer back now.

6992 Reading one hundred terrible stories

6993 I shall fall in love with a soldier

6994 Plums in a small brown bag

6995 I am almost there

6996 I need to hear something beautiful. Be new for me.

6997 Trapped in a lift with the writers

6998 Fuck. This. Kill. Me.

6999 At some point death will come sweet

7000 This is just how it is and too high a number

March Prompts 6951-6975

Sunday, April 3rd, 23:15

6951 The banging of a shutter in the wind

6952 The various flowers in the bouquet

6953 I went there tomorrow but I hadn’t arrived

6954 Just because a man is a cobbler don’t think he understands leather

6955 So you want to be a journalist…

6956 Famine Over, I Clicked LIKE!

6957 Two Skeletons: One says, “Have you lost weight?”

6958 The hole in time

6959 Syria 2066

6960 The sound of 50 cc ‘motorbikes”

6961 I could try to fix it myself

6962 Interview in Wimbledon

6963 Here, I feel, I should interrupt and suggest another course

6964 Drip, Drip, Drip. Plop!

6965 An ancient perambulator

6966 You stopped at the end of the lane, but you didn’t turn round

6967 Chocolate Fingers

6968 I am here, all bar the insults

6969 David Cameron’s Shit and David Cameron’s Shit’s Shit

6970 Imagine me with my mind still here

6971 There is something about childhood; was it all imagined?

6972 Is he still alive or just pretending to be?

6973 You don’t hear the explosion that kills you

6974 The moon is bigger over London

6975 Dogs bark. It rains sometimes