No Tears or Souvenirs: Grahame Francis

@Came_To_Say_ Must have

@SometimesOxford Priorities.

Need.

@Came_To_Say_ Wow Enjoy

@SometimesOxford They don't know yet.

Let the Good Times Roll.

I walk up a street It’s one I know The daffodils gone over smile True forgotten gods Nodding with bowed nostalgia Each bud delivers Almost to a day A green bent coil of sun At one’s corner A heavenly turn I wait For you now sat in shade are never there & I am always lost #Clouds

and just how many poetry competitions have been won by AI masquerading as someone’s name ? Answers on a hard disk please.

. If it mattered Or was commercially driven The lawyers will initially attend to it This is a given Subject to certain criteria So for AI There’s every library to learn & poets will become Even more complex Abstract That’s functional AI will follow So Without doubt It’s an end .

You can send a man to Rome But you can’t make him wink #overheard #AtTheWinkingWomanConvention

Never write a commissioned poem, a themed poem or a prompt poem End of Only write poetry that comes from direct instinct Otherwise F#ck off #JustSaying #GentleReminder

@katieculture Written whilst living in her Winterbrook house probably.

Agatha Christie described her beloved Devon home, Greenway, as “the loveliest place in the world”, and from having it all to myself for a time this morning, I can certainly see why.

@ProfCarlSagan whilst going down the drain.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde

@AngelaRayner Real politicians have guts and go with their instinct. More platitudes and complaining will get you nowhere. Get on your horse and ride the victory race Or sit down and shut up.

Our party has suffered a historic defeat. Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more. What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance. The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people. We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it. Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits. Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them. Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that. In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.  We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people. The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.  Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government. For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics. But we have the chance to fix this.  1/2

@AngelaRayner Brandishing the knife But not using it.

I’ve a diamond bracelet In my thoughts What would you do For A last chance To wear such glitter Because the sparkle greeds everything you do Even in shadow Your hand observed Dips Between Hid And slipped Into carbon black So becoming #Bracelets

@biancastone Pain full.

@The_Forty_Four The Rice foul occurs before the goalkeeper foul. That’s VAR for you, deciding premierships.

VAR stole a generation moment once again… Ruining the beautiful game.

In the manner of Sometimes

Monsters in thought & your livery is repugnant Who said flattery does ? Not one but three Angels Their wing spread: dead mussels on heat But yet be dream in dream by dream The sky melting to a sun Back to livery Truth backs down How marvellous you Reappear My monsters! #4all

@lavidaenvinetas Not a fish on any hook Could redefine the iPhone look

Sempé

@bettanyhughes 🪮

Covers And their immediate Approval youtu.be/0MrfbliOECg?si…

@ae_stallings Murder in the Cathedral Dramatised by T S Elliot Based upon the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170 A play not a film if that is where you are heading.

Has there ever been a movie of Death Comes for the Archbishop? It feels very cinematic.