Deja Vu July 15 2010 ©Paul J Penton [part of the July song a day challenge!] I’ve got a feeling this has happened before That somehow we’ve spoken But I just can’t think where memory is playing time shifting tricks ‘cause I feel like we’ve had conversations like this It might be my imagination that [...]

Sliding doors As I’m gliding down Chapel Street on smooth layers of ashphalt past beggars looking vacant and two dollar shops looking vibrant past the factory seconds place where  a bloke is having trouble removing his security screen As I’m gliding each shop I pass that has  a door of sliding glass that opens beside [...]

May 6 “Debt to haunt our young” a newspaper headline today a baby’s born but she don’t know what’s coming she’ll have this debt burden hanging around for eternity as we’re bailing out ourselves out of this global finance crisis born from a Frankentstein concept of young bankers in the nineties who thought they were [...]

Down at the bakery, they’re always asking me as they piece together a slice of ham and a sliver of cucumber “sul, pepper, may’naise” no, that’s not a spelling mistake but the way the say it down at the Mihn Trahn They’re exceedingly eager to deliver their question looking up with those puppy dog eyes, [...]

Greg was talking about his neighbour He’s ‘s from Ethiopia or somewhere- Sudan Big strapping man He sits out the front of the flats/apartments Stands on the corner looking at the Indians across the road Defiantly He won’t let the Turkish bloke turn around his Valiant He goes out a couple of times a night [...]

April03 how the brain works ruminating on brainwashing and whether these cults and organizations know about the input mechanism to the unconscious- commanding the unconscious – like hypnotism- is that how they excerpt control if your girlfriend lived on the other side of town would you meet in the middle=? hazy autumn morning the trees [...]