by Valerie | Nov 28, 2012 | November Chapbook Challenge
As a youngster I was called a ‘blackleg’because I worked hard when the others slackedbut I got on with the job anywayhoping I’d have a job when they were sacked. But I had my first hard lesson in lifewhen I was laid off and the slackers stayed.The...
by Valerie | Nov 27, 2012 | Comic Verse, November Chapbook Challenge
I need a hero in my lifeto take me for his full time wifeI’ve had enough of wasting tearson men who’ve made me over years.uneasy. Men with wives they have lied about;men who can’t help but swear and shout;men who stay out drinking all night;men who...
by Valerie | Nov 26, 2012 | Comic Verse, Monotetra Poetry, November Chapbook Challenge
I’m suffering from dejection.I need a brand new directionto cure my husband’s affectionfor collection, for collection. There’re everywhere that I lookin the house. In every nookI will find yet another bookon how to cook, on how to cook. I know I am...
by Valerie | Nov 26, 2012 | November Chapbook Challenge
I was sauntering in the parkjust before it was getting dark,when a passing thought came to mehow forgetful sometimes are we.I took a while to stop and stareat a pony, and a grey mare,I quote a very famous pomeas I thought about going home.I asked aloud with no-one...
by Valerie | Nov 24, 2012 | Comic Verse, November Chapbook Challenge
The truth about retirement is that it’snot so good as it is cracked up to be.Everything you want has its limits,comes with a price and hardly ever free. You’d think that we could just sit on a buswith our free passes, but at the ride’s endwe pass a...
by Valerie | Nov 23, 2012 | November Chapbook Challenge
Deep asleep -she twitches, flicking her maneinvoluntarily.Her paws arerunning over someimaginary plain. Her black lipsare curled backexposing her canines.Her flared nostrilspulsate, gatheringall the sweet odoursof those felines. The whites of her eyesroll around in...
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