Android in Spain
You called me, I came
Studio in Tenerife, inbuilt roaches
Sandy sandy sand
Towels and bowels and trowels.
I didn’t enjoy it
The long walk
All uphill against a tide of disinterest.
“Hey how are you doing?”
“Not that I care”
Karaoke embarrassment
“There must be one song you know”
I know lots but do not wish
To perform
Public
Hare Kari
That’s what she said but I missed it.
Time went forward and I looked backward
“Look at this beach!”
I burned my toes in the water
And on the hot sand
Unpronounceable name
It´s a Caravan!
A Caravanserai
Full of Oil
Full of port!
So to the peaks and the shanty town
“We´ll get rid soon, 007”
We need more space for the tourists!
I cycle to the Mall
Crammed my helmet in my pack
Nobody will steal it
Nobody wants it
Nobody wants me!
Christmas Cracker.
“Hey Santa, go over there!”
No laughter
Santa, bemused, sat in the rain dear.
No laughter.
Rudolf the well-read.
No laughter.
It was a joke, Christmas.
Winter solstice takes three days for the dead to rise
All hello’s Eve – Adam sends his best regards.
In Istanbul I plied my troth
Wishing for a Visigoth
To raid the City and tear apart
The Kazakh girl who stole my heart.
No beer, no wine, no women.
Humour!
Recovery!
Shoe shine for blue suede!
Walking home in the rain she declares her gratitude!
Haggia Sophia, Ayasophya, Blues, Sulemye.
Galata Bridge watching the hopeful,
Knowing the salesmen.
Sell fishing rods not fish!
Jesus said it, one Friday morning whilst eating a hamburger.
“I like this” she said
Stripping naked in the cold room
Sharing towels and body fluids.
Old blankets.
“I´m tired” she says, expectantly.
Six months later she is still sitting there.
The sun was never enough to warm her heart
Sandy sandy sand.
You could live here with me.
Sandy cold heart.
The tourists need me
They never really leave this
Place
Micro continent.
Clothes for sale, I cried
Who wants my bike?
Nobody came
Nobody cared.
Do you do home delivery?
When the word came from the East
It took my breath away
And left me with a coating of nostalgia.
Anonymous whinging
“It’s not true!” I declare.
“The customer!”
No, just you Morgana.
Quizas Quizas Quizas.
Friday Smile
Gibberish
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Billy
I thought of you today, old friend
As they shouted out to eat the phone book
Do you remember coming home and finding me
Beneath the bed
Staring at the springs
Claiming to be totally sober
Long time since sober
I tried to tell you on your last dot com
But lost five years in replying
You were no longer there
Recalling days of innocence
Halcyon days-
I laughed with Luke a I mispronounced it
Most nights
Returning from the pub
With Kith and Bodge and Coley
We watched some late night TV
Now it never shuts down
If still we were there we would sit up all night and bore ourselves to sleep
You always
(despite denials)
pulled down on your nose
before dropping your shreds
Quaint we said.
So now a lifetime later I click in the ether
Dr. John told us it wasn’t there
But we try to speak through that which does not exist
Except through a go between
Civil servant trained super efficient waiting to be of service, Sir.
The old home town looks the same but smaller
(syndrome)
Tip of the iceberg
Double you double you double you Dot
Outside the Mexican beers line up
Playing for San Tiana
They’re killing your soldiers below
Is this my Alamo?
Never give up, never surrender
Is this the real Life?
10 Authors who dealt with Rejection.
You and I love to write. It’s a special gift and a privilege we have creating story’s, sometimes just for ourselves, for our families and friends. But we all reach the point when we believe in what we write and we want to see it published – and we’d also like to make money from our writing too!
There are many famous writer, old and new, who have gone from the personal writing to looking for publication only to be rejected. I think many of you reading this will have a few rejection letters yourself – if not get ready for some! I have a few myself and each time I get one I either take on board the positive criticism or I reject it if it is just negative criticism!
Below, in no particular order, are ten well known authors who suffered their fair share of rejection. However they didn’t let it stop them – they kept going an eventually found fame and fortune from their writing. We should take heart from these examples and remember – success is not just about what you do but about the attitude and determination you have to suucceed.
1. C.S. Lewis. Author of the Chronicles of Narnia, the most famous being The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Lewis received more than 800 rejections before he sold anything. Next time you watch one of the movies just smile at his determination.
2. Margaret Mitchell. Not an author that jumps into ones head easily – she wrote Gone With The Wind. An all time classic that was rejected by 25 publishers.
3. Robert M. Pisig. The author of a modern classic much loved by undergraduate college students. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance took four years to write and was rejected 121 times!
4. George Orwell. A personal favourite of mine as he worked at the local newspaper in my hometown and took his pen name from the River Orwell. His iconic book on Stalinist Russia, Animal Farm, was rejected repeatedly, one American publisher claiming that ‘animal stories don’t sell’.
5. The Diary of Anne Frank was repeatedly rejected as many publishers felt it was of little interest to the general public. By 1998 this book had sold more than 25 million copies and remains a bestseller to this day.
6. William Golding. The Lord of the Flies, an intriguing book about the lives and violence of young boys stranded on a tropical island, was rejected more than 20 times. The book has gone on to sell more than 14 million copies and the author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was one of my favourites in Secondary School as it was so easy to identify with… 
7. James Joyce. Possibly one of the most famous Irish writers of the 20th Century saw his novel Ulysses rejected over and over for being obscene. I have dipped into this one a few time – it’s a tough one!
8. Jasper Fforde. Again a personal favourite. I have all of his Thursday Next novels and love the Nursery Crime series. Jasper collected 76 rejections before The Eyre Affair was accepted for publication.
9. J.K. Rowling. Probably the best known rejected author of modern times. The first Harry Potter book was turned down by 12 major publishing houses before being accepted by Bloomsbury one of the smaller London publishers. Now each of her books has been turned into a movie, there are the books, computer games, merchandise etc.
10. Frank Herbert. The best selling Science Fiction novel of all time was rejected 20 times. When accepted Dune sold so well that Herbert was contracted to write five more in the series.
So great books – how many have you actually read? – the common thread being rejection and perseverance. I have just finished the first draft of the manuscript for my second novel and will soon be reviewing and editing. then there will be the submissions and the rejections. Or maybe go straight to Kindle?
Meanwhile I keep my cash flowing by writing articles, short storys, poetry and tutoring. I feel priveleged, like I said at the start of this article, that I can spend time writing and helping others. I particularly like to write comedy – not one of the easiest genres but great fun. I sometimes burst out laughing when I read the things I’ve written.
Don’t ever get downhearted about your writing. Write for yourself when you can. Write articles to improve your skills (and get paid); write for your friends and family.
Just write!
Keep the smiles rolling in
Daft Elves and Time Travellers
“You’re on the ball now!”
Wayne adjusted his underwear and sat more comfortably.
“Do you know about the Witch King?” enquired Wayne, with a slight look of pain in his eye; though it may just have been a tear of sympathy at his former predicament; or maybe it was irritated by mushroom spores that wandered lonely in a cloud, beside the river, beneath the trees, looking for a nose to make it sneeze.
“Which King?”
“The Witch King. The meanest son of a bitch ever to pop up on Uranus!”
“And how would I address this mighty King of the Witches, should I ever chance upon him?”
“Some call him … Grumbleflick!”
“Grumbleflick?”
“Yes – Grumbleflick! He has ants in his pants and doesn’t like to dance!”
“It seems to me young Elf, that you are familiar with this Grumbleflick.”
“That is a lie! No Elf would ever be a familiar to a Witch! No matter which Witch it was!”
A face totally devoid of any expression afflicted Tom momentarily, as he tried to work out what the feck these Elves were saying.
“I am trying to work out what the firkin Heck are you saying, young Elf?” probed Mad Tom of Bedlam.
“Look,” steamed Ken, “I know about Witches and I know about the Witch King Grumbleflick. But I am not his familiar. Nor do I like to be probed!”
“OK! OK! Let’s start again. Tell me about Grumbleflick!”
“He’s dead!”
“What do you mean?”
“You don’t know what dead means?”
“Yes I do – but how can he be dead?”
“He’s a Witch!”
“And?”
“Lots of them are dead. They seem to like it that way – it’s a great tax saving tip!”
“So King Grumbleflick is a stiff?”
“Not all of him, some bits are quite floppy.”
“How does he look?”
“He uses his eyes, like most folks; but apparently he has a deathly stare. And an awful twitch in his left eye…”
“So he is a winking Witch King!”
“Yes the Witch with a twitch.”
“And what of his countenance?”
“His what?”
“His mien?”
“Yes, he’s mean alright! Wouldn’t give you the time of day – not that that would bother you!”
“I mean what does his gob look like!!!!”
“Ugly fucker by all accounts. Face like a bucket of smashed crabs. And pale!”
“A pail of smashed crabs?”
“Not pail! Pale!”
“Pale?”
“Did you ever go to school? I mean his face is very white!”
“So he is wan?”
“Yes, just him; the only one.”
“Wan!”
“I’m a little lost here,” said Magdalene. “I cant quite tell the difference between one and wan!”
“It’s two,” chortled Wayne>
“What?”
“Yes, one and one is two!”
“I know that, but what about ‘one’ and ‘wan’?”
“So you’re not sure about the ‘one’ one and the ‘wan’ one?”
“That is what I said!” screamed Magdalene.
“She’s a bit of a one,” said Wayne to Ken.
Irritated Tom decided to take over.
“When he mentioned the paleness of the wan one he meant the King of the Witches.”
“So Grumbleflick is wan?”
“That’s the one!”
“Yes – deathly white!”
“I see! He is the winking wan King!”
Tom looked to Magdalene – who looked to all purposes like a totally muddled Basset Hound on the streets of Benidorm when the coffin dodgers are in full swing.
“So; we are looking for Grumbleflick, the winking wan King of the Witches! Where can I find him?”
“I haven’t got the foggiest!” declared Ken. “I’m happy for the Witches to be a legend of some renown but you can kiss my sweet patooty if you think I’d want to know where they live!”
“What about you?” asked Magdalene, homing in suddenly on Wayne like a Labrador on a high pitched fart.
“He lives in Witchland!” spurted Wayne.
Ken Tucky went red with anger, rage and constipation.
“I told you to forget that!” screamed Ken at his trembling chum.
“I forgot to remember to forget!” bleated Wayne.
“Which land is Witchland?” asked Tom.
“Yes,” said Ken. “Though they do say this land is my land, this land is your land, and his land is Witchland!”
“What land?”
“Consult a bloody Geography teacher if you really want to know! I am a humble supervisor of a small scale Magic Mushroom Farm, not a cartographer! And I don’t have elbow patches on my corduroy jacket!” declared Ken with more than a hint of annoyance and a deliciously over the top pucker of his brow.
Fairy Hanny 