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Vegetable-ism.

Originally written in 2024 in response to the Farage Riots, it contains perennial truths. Did we grow right here? Did we sprout out of the very ground we inhabit? Are we vegetables? Or, did we arrive here by an historic process? My Dad once said that: ‘Manchester is a city of fleeing immigrants.’ Joe Moss. Continue reading
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Worrier on the Edge of Town.

It was cold on the edge of 1984. Dread swamped around frayed hems, an ominous puddle stagnating as the year loomed closer, then subsiding as the new year broke and that dumfungled vision of a jackboot future forever stalled, mired at the sluice gates neath the ruined towers on the edge of town. The young Continue reading