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Tag: childhood

Autobio pieces.

Banana Boy.

Banana Boy (Edited Version) Ssad tales or success stories? Here they’re two sides of the same view. Our childhoods aren’t a choice, but how we carry it is. Being a Barnardo’s boy, an accident of empire. I grew up as a lonely kid, surrounded by children in a giant echoing house. But I and my […]

Tags childhood, children Dr Barnardo's Homes, childrens' homes, life., orphanage, orphans

light verse

I Quit!!

I could go on – but why? This life of embittered melancholy, has chilled my spirit; frozen me. So – I quit. My position as an adult, I hereby refute, I have a new catapult which assuredly I’ll shoot at anyone and everyone who stands in my way toward freedom and innocence. My life is about to […]

Tags adulthood, appointments, car keys, childhood, good times, those were the days