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PROMPTS

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After my divorce, I bought a guitar

Best moment, any day: Amazon, “Flat 5?”

By pen and then machinery, then back to ink

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What birds will wait at funerals?

The things I scribble in my little black book

I chop logs while praying for the tree

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It is always on show at parties, my toy

TEETH

The poet puts needles in your arms

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Pink mohair sweaters, beehive hair

MACHETE

Why do poets live in Totnes, Devon?

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I put my mother in the picture, the one she said she was

Cola with square bubbles

Happiness rubbed round my ankles

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After her death I stepped outside. The sun was blazing

The notes that wait inside bells

She miscarried, there in the Friday market

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The lido, a father’s anger at his child

Love tapped on the window

I have invented the chocolate car

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Let’s all go out and swallow ethanol

No I couldn’t, I really couldn’t

Children’s smudging steam on cafe windows

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At two the child learns it is not a thing

The paddle-steamer making a five point turn

What someone taught me.