Author: Francis Meyrick
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Oxygen
(A real simple, borderline awful “poem ” to several writing friends of mine who suffer from severe depression, and who are medicated up to the eyeballs. It’s not good…. You guys worry me… And if you ask me, I wouldn’t remotely trust any of that pharmaceutical CRAP anyway.) Oxygen I will admit I’m just a…
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Intermezzo
INTERMEZZO An interesting question may be as follows: “If Life for us humans is temporary and finite, then is this experience we are having just a mere intermezzo? An interlude? A pause? ” And, leading on from that: “If so, then what are we pausing FOR? “ If Life is the popcorn break, then what…
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Of Helicopters and Humans (1): “Living in a Cubicle “
my faithful old ride ‘One-Four-Victor’, subsequently destroyed in a crash, that killed the pilot… Living in a cubicle We were flying along in a Bell helicopter, quite happily, enjoying the strange magic of the African coastline, with a pale blue wintry sky. Cirrus clouds were weaving their thin, ephemeral presence at some dizzy height above…
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The lonely butterfly (part 2)
The Lonely Butterfly (2) He was gone. My little friend was gone. The lonely butterfly had disappeared into the dark gloom of a forgotten hallway.. I leaned back against the rusted, worn railings of my tired sanity. So what, I asked myself, had struck me so powerfully about what I had just witnessed? What was…
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The lonely butterfly (part 1)
The lonely butterfly (Part 1)
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The Drive by shooting
THE DRIVE BY SHOOTING I was about to fall into bed, exhausted. I had way, way exceeded normal duty time, due to a series of law enforcement events. In fact, the previous night, I had hardly slept at all. I was dog tired, bone weary, crabby, irritable and my body ached to be let go…
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Black Thunder
Black Thunder The Louisiana fishermen, standing by the side of the LA 82, barely paused in their conversation. The rolling thunder, that had started as no more than a distant, growling threat, was increasing in volume. It was louder now, and became the unmistakable sound of an approaching large V-twin motorcycle. Still the fishermen chatted…
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Jessica is not coming to play today
Jessica is not coming to play today credits: Evangelis ( “Missing you “) frenzfrenz (YouTube) Thursday, March 8th 2007 I guess this is not a good morning for me. Oh, the sun is shining. I’m home, for a week off. In my comfortable house. With the dogs lying around outside, contentedly dozing in the sun.…
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If you’re good…
IF YOU’RE GOOD… (I took a child, by the hand) IF YOU’RE GOOD… If you’re good, you can come with me. You’ll have to be good. Otherwise I won’t take you. Give me your hand. There now… Close your eyes, and listen to me. We’re in a helicopter, a small one, flying along… Precariously, fragile,…
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Dreams to Allah