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April 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Night We Found Our Cat In The Street
We got home about 7pm, and there was a gang in the street – all these kids from the neighbourhood flats, and standing, like a pied piper among them, a guy looking confused, a bit sad, he had a cat slumped in his hand. It was our cat. It was dead. He handed it to me […]Archive
March 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Royksopp’s Melody A.M. and their Late Night Tales: Late Night Driving Favourites
I forgot all about Royksopp. I loved their debut, Melody A.M. – I was working in a music store at the time and new music was arriving, daily. (Obviously). It was a good time to be working in music retail – for a start there were still customers. And though, very swiftly, the various taglines […]Archive
November 20, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 137 The Desert Road
Time was running out for Sue There wasn’t much left she knew I wrote it as a kind of sequel or answer to Weathered Lines Her whereabouts was fine but it wasn’t home She finally figured out she was alone Instead of being a song about life it’s a song about death and the more […]Archive
August 20, 2014 by Simon Sweetman