paul sheridan: Poems

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paul sheridan Jul 28

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picked up the phone
there was nobody there
so I took it

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paul sheridan Jul 28

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she said he should think
about looking at things a little
differently, so he closed one eye
in what she considered to be
a quite infuriating wink

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paul sheridan Jul 17

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she said you’ve never
understood
me? I didn’t know what she was
talking about ..

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paul sheridan Aug 1

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you’re not the man I married

        all those years ago, she said

we only met last night! he

    cried

        and clambered out of bed

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paul sheridan Aug 3

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the city grows bigger every year
I think maybe there are
too many restaurants

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paul sheridan Aug 9

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death is like gloves
hides all your fingerprints
who knows what
you touched ..

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paul sheridan Jul 29

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love can’t be captured in a poem
but if the poem’s any good
it might be set free

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paul sheridan Aug 17

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when I saw her I fancied her and
thirty odd years later
after we married I still do and
******* woman I still fancy you

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paul sheridan Jul 4

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not having felt great for
ages one somewhat ..

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paul sheridan Jul 5

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think you have right
on your side, try spending time with
a few of the
wrong people entirely, darling ..

used to linger

paul sheridan May 20

used to linger

aren’t as many second hand
bookshops on the charing cross road as
there were when I was younger
of course, so were they ..

we still felt young

paul sheridan Jun 9

we still felt young

we rented a room
so cold we went to bed
with our clothes on,
but not for long

what do you mean it’s not poetry

paul sheridan Aug 6

what do you mean it’s not poetry

the best thing I ever wrote
down your phone number

whatever ..

paul sheridan Jul 8

whatever ..

could tell you were disappointed,
but then,
you tell it so much better ..

what the chap said when his wife left

paul sheridan Aug 19

what the chap said when his wife left

the bed still takes up most of the room
but now there’s more room in the bed ..

what the dickens

paul sheridan Jul 24

what the dickens

went to the george, just off
borough high street, an old coaching inn,
you can just drink in the past
in here ..

what the f#ck ..

paul sheridan Jun 7

what the f#ck ..

don’t like restaurants
are full of people
who could have stayed
at home and cooked

when all’s said and done

paul sheridan Jun 4

when all’s said and done

opened a bottle of scotch
“how’s that going to help?”
ever tried drinking this stuff
with the lid on ..

worth the licence fee

paul sheridan Jul 17

worth the licence fee

in 1979 I watched vera brittain’s testament of
youth on the BBC and bought the book
and read wilfred owen
and discovered horror and beauty and poetry

yeah, I get it, I’m old

paul sheridan 3d

yeah, I get it, I’m old

please mind the gap to the platform
as you leave the train
comes over the tannoy
must they frighten me again ..

yeah mate, I know it was getting dark, but it wasn’t an owl

paul sheridan Jul 21

yeah mate, I know it was getting dark, but it wasn’t an owl

saw a chicken up
a tree and
no one
believes me

you never know

paul sheridan Jul 4

you never know

threw it aside
thinking of course
a poem is never

as good as
it might have been,
though ..

your choice

paul sheridan 4d

your choice

do you keep pets
because people aren’t
enough for you?
I’ve got a couple of insects ..

your selfies with paris very much in the background are boring

paul sheridan Jul 31

your selfies with paris very much in the background are boring

never found that
travel broadens the
mind, I could

be wrong, but I
prefer to stay home
with a book

you’ve beautiful thighs, but let me finish the book ..

paul sheridan Jun 6

you’ve beautiful thighs, but let me finish the book ..

your underwears me down
with it’s expectation of
fulfilment, but I’m just not in the mood
right now I’m reading

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