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To Siddle – a verb
I bowl
you score
we curse
you all
I bowl
I hit
you’re hurt
I sledge
I bowl
you glove
he catches
you’re out
I bowl
you miss
we shout
they give it
you’re out
I bowl
you’re XXXXed
Stuart Clark
Not that you’d notice him for seeing,
the sort of bloke in the office
who always comes to work on time
to a tidy desk all parts done efficiently
yesterday.
Pays the drinks kitty and sweepstake
promptly
and tells the sharpest stories about the bosses
secretly
(not that you notice him for seeing.)
The sort of bloke troubled mothers of errant daughters
pray they’d bring [...]
It feels weird. Sitting at home about to go to the cricket. I feel I should be somewhere else, in The Ivy Bush pub in Newport for Cardiff, relatives in Golder’s Green for Lord’s or a rented farmhouse in Worcestershire. Being at home, with a half-finished kitchen awaiting the return of the builders (all meant [...]
