Writing Archive
Explore a curated collection of my writing, including psychotherapy insights, short stories, letters, and poetry, all compiled for easy access and reflection.
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Malcolm
My absent mothers brother I had such hopes for you: that photograph of you with your first motorcycle all gleaming & chrome-the bike that is 🙂 You weren’t in my life as a child…
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jumping jacks
another year the liar is not here he said he wouldn’t be & truthfully he isn’t the man with no voice is though his esposa & him playing two handed solitaire we stop &…
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rambles
letting thoughts come flaneurs & posers thinking wondering what you might make of this your tired legs refusing to work too many people to pull apart that cruelty i refused to let graft onto…
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Change principles
These are useful for thinking about learning new skills, maybe you’ve recently learned that you sabotage yourself in relationships by moving too fast, too slow or having expectations very different from your partners’ At…
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finding bottom
first to arrive last to leave those party rules learned so long ago if you don’t get enough that’s on you i tell myself i’m turning up for work doing the job taking home…
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raised hard
or so they told hard times hard lives no money for nothin’ got said enough times to make it sound real where i found the truth between the lines is their having family cousins…
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come through
took myself off have those feelings happen from time to time came back into the fray the fold the theatre of war you’ve come through? she’s asking like she cares has expectations of a…