Below is a list of books I love and have read (in many cases re-read.) Some have shaken my world and some have just provided an escape. Some are just fun or interesting. All have (or will have) blurblings hyperlinked to this page. Please check back for updates. Oh, and feel free to contribute! The Master and…
Author: Sarah Mann
Okay human, most of the time.
The New Year…
So, as I sit here on the verge of going back to work, revved up on a come-down from pethidine and a shit-load of codeine, I’m am hitting hard a whole “what’s the craic?” thought process. For the first time since giving up teaching, I am asking myself what the hell is going on with me,…
NYC Midnight: Strikes Again
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft…
So, 2016…
We need to talk. It’s not me, it’s you. Definitely 100% you. You’ve behaved disgracefully, if we’re honest. You’ve treated me like a page-a-day calendar. I’ve basically been thoroughly disposable. Out of sight, out of mind. You keep year-splaining to my friends, making excuses for terrible decisions and errors in judgement. You promised you were…
Esme and the Silence
Esme studied the puddle of silence between them / unlike the harmony of the old silences / the discord jangled across her nerves / and shredded her gut-strings / shattering her quiet soul / as it continued to pool around her / the silence took all the language / drew it into its dark depths…
The Brain Dump
I am exhausted She said As she turned out the contents of her mind into the bog-standard-government-issue-trash-disposal bin “Hazardous marterials” I am tired of the fight and the struggle Of people not caring enough or immobilised by caring too much Of being being so scared to be honest to-say-what-they-see-what-they-think-and-feel that eventually we all become our…
Esperanto Libro de Tagoj
Bonŝancon hieraŭ Mi ne plu timas La rememoro pri eterna jaroj La ageless malaperon de edroj Dum doloro ankoraŭ kapitulacigas Freŝa ondoj kiel via rekomendo Bonŝancon morgaŭ La pezo de la estonteco Eluzita kiel vesto Poŝoj ŝtono-prirabita De la potenca pezeco De espero kaj senutileco Kaj adiaŭ hodiaŭ Rigardante vin piediri for Jen ĉiuj vi…
Another failed poem
Poetry is not my fort;I cannot construct walls of meaning To defend or to conceal Hidden passages of depth. Parody will neither parry Nor thrust witticisms Across the great divide. Arrows of outrageous hyperbole Won’t leave allusory quivers. I will not pour the boiling oil of scorn On imaginary foes. Pyrrhic foot soldiers Do not…
Slice of Life
Allow me to serve you A crumbling slice of irritation Butter-iced with sugared frustration And garnished with a rainbow sprinkles of disdain Salt-laden sadness stirred With flaccid wooden spoon While sighs of anger roar through The hollow fanned oven If it tastes bitter That’s just the recipe Wash it away with a cuppa The bromide-laced…
Summat from my head
Don’t look me in the eyes Tell me it’s all just fine Just taking a match to kindling and twine You’re not sending smoke signals You’re burning the whole forest And the tinder blazes (You can’t swipe left on actual human faces) Telling me it’s all in my head Breath ragged, voice dead Not waving…
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