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April 16, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Watching Twin Peaks 30 Years Later

Laura Palmer’s mother doesn’t know what time the last phone call came – the logs get cut and the steam piles up. Those lush piano chords sit under the scenes, soft-pedalled playing that enriches the melodrama, pretty much tells us to love the slow-burn; small-town grinding to a halt. Lara Flynn Boyle was only better […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Angelo Bada, Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlan, Lara Flynn Boyle, Piper Laurie, Poem, Poem: Watching Twin Peaks 30 Years Later, Twin Peaks, Watching Twin Peaks 30 Years Later ·

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April 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Skipping Reels of Rhyme

Poem after poem, time after time. It is my chance to sing. No less a force than Bob Dylan said all words that rhyme mean the same thing
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bob Dylan, Poem, Poem: Skipping Reels of Rhyme, Skipping Reels of Rhyme ·

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April 13, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Unfinished…

Come talk to me when all bones are clean Then you can point out my flaws, when I no longer see the skin of past victims dangling from yours…
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Come talk to me when all bones are clean Then you can point out my flaws, Poem, Poem: Unfinished, Unfinished, when I no longer see the skin of past victims dangling for yours… ·

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April 12, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Church Is A Verb

(with thanks to Margot Pierard) She is singing Blackbird a capella. As the family grieves, the vocalist offers a hug they can hear. A scaffold to really hold them in the moment. The voice uplifting, almost quite literally. There’s a church for all of us, we don’t need to always be there. We just need […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged (with thanks to Margot Pierard), Church Is A Verb, Poem, Poem: Church Is A Verb ·

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April 10, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: For Whom

She walked past and I remembered her from one moment. Me, drunk on New Year’s Eve, I ripped the bell from the front door and then ran to town clanging it, yelling “bring out your dead”, thinking myself so funny. Some 25 years on I wouldn’t say I’m awful. I’ve done a lot of bad […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged For Whom, Poem, Poem: For Whom ·

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April 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Ani DiFranco Might Have Been The Original Slam Poet For All We Really Know (Or Care)

right now a slam poet is committing to memory a new poem that makes their lips and tongue do a dance determined to make sibilance sexy (it’s not!) and then hoping to evoke the feel of their feet merging with the earth and feeling so goddamn at one with it all eh. basically fingering the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Ani DiFranco Might Have Been The Original Slam Poet For All We Really Know (Or Care), Poem, Poem:  Doubt It, Poem: Ani DiFranco Might Have Been The Original Slam Poet For All We Really Know (Or Care), Slam Poetry ·

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April 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Old Skies

the new moon sits in an old sky, reminding us that you can never truly say goodbye, unless the plan is to stay gone for good – or for worse.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Old Skies, Poem, Poem: Old Skies, reminding us that you can never truly say goodbye, the new moon sits in an old sky, unless the plan is to stay gone for good – or for worse. ·

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April 7, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 252: Mike McKeon aka Mike Dr. Blue

Welcome back for another week and another new guest, this is episode 252 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys  and thanks to you readers and listeners. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can get to […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Anchor, Apple, Blues, Busk, Busking, Chat, Conversation, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Dr. Blue, Edinburgh, England, Fringe Festival, Gig, Guitar, https://mikedrblue.bandcamp.com/, Interview, Kate Bush, Lockdown, Mike Blue, Mike McKeon, Music, Podcast, Poem, Poetrty, Sameena Zehra, Simon Sweetman, Slide, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Storytelling, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 252, Sweetman Podcast # 252: Mike McKeon aka Mike Blue (‘Dr. Blue’), Sweetman Podcast # 252: Mike McKeon aka Mike Dr. Blue, T Leaf T, Theatre, Tom Waits, UK, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 6, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Blood Is Thicker Than Water

The new move is to just let them be. Chat about the things they find interesting. Blood is thicker than water. So a drink helps to dilute the build up from tongues bitten.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blood Is Thicker Than Water, Poem, Poem: Blood Is Thicker Than Water, The new move is to just let them be. Chat about the things they find interesting. Blood is thicker than water. So a drink helps to dilute the build up from tongues bitten. ·

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April 6, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Clean Closet

Those 2000 things you wrote don’t matter because of fifteen things you said. It’s not acceptable in 2021 to have digital breadcrumbs from a prior feast un-swept. The amateur cleaner will find them and charge you later, take what they can; their own shelves well hidden
Posted in Blog, Mixtapes · Tagged Clean Closet, Poem, Poem: Clean Closet ·

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April 5, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: I Nearly Killed A Dog One Day

Sixteen years old, driving the big blue Volvo real fucking fast down the hill and then WHAM! I hit a dog. It flew across the road in front of me and I clocked it front on. It tumbled down the road doing cartwheels – it was horrible. And then, almost more frightening, it soldiered up […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged I Nearly Killed A Dog One Day, Poem, Poem: I Nearly Killed A Dog One Day ·

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April 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Middle Management

This poem was written by me. This is your content warning. And it is my poem. I told you we could meet in the middle.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Middle Management, Poem, Poem: Middle Management, This poem was written by me. This is your content warning. And it is my poem. I told you we could meet in the middle. ·
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