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December 3, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Broken Computer Screen Lamentations

when you see the spiderweb in the corner of the screen – it’s time to fly there is a crack in everything, said Leonard. He reckoned that’s how the light gets in – I had enough light in my computer already screen-time is a concern in this house. Or was until just recently. My screen […]
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May 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Of Mouse & Man

I move the mouse or does it move me? Strange wee Ouija board that takes me where I almost never need to go, allows me, once in a while, to smile out the window(s), on the way to wherever – as some of my past lives flash by – and at several things I might […]
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June 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 63 The Pixel Art

When I came to rewrite my 80s manuscript Manslaughter early this millennium, I scored an old IBM pc that was being biffed out by my partner, Michelle’s work. It was so much easier than the typewriter I had drafted it on. I had a painting in mind for the cover and I bought a scanner […]
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