My Shopping Lists

We had a competition at work a few days ago to write a five item shopping list. The prize was an hour off work.

Here are some of my entries

1. For Sale
• A 3 Acre hollowed out volcano with fitted monorail
• A ex squad of bitter marines
• A shark pool with added piranhas
• A Laser, world destroying size, with visible beam
• And a white Kitty-Kat


2. My Life Goals
   
• A Pimped out red car with a spoiler
• A vicious dog like a Rockweiler
• A switch pocket knife
• A fit trophy wife
• And the rest of my life in the broiler


3. Shopping List
   
• Pasta Laguini
• Vodka Martini
• New Wool Beenie
• Book on Houdini
• And some Milk

Can you tell I wanted that hour off work?

And can you believe I didn't win?

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Closed doors

***Every now and then, for no reason than to stop the authorities taking me away, I may write something to try and prove that below it all I’m more than just a hilariously good writer. Sometimes for example I can be an hilariously bad writer too.

This was written trapped on a train. A train that was taking me home again.

There, that should be enough emotional pre-blurb.***

Memories speeding past the glass
Fading shadows in the light of dawn
In the misty haze that surrounds my carriage
A turbulent flight though our lives
Fallow fields half hid in darkness
Lit in speckled cloud bursts of light
A glimpse of heaven racing past me
Like fleeting dreams I left to die

At every stop the doors slide open
For a moment I want to run, be free
Live a new life where no-one knows me
Start again, make my dreams come true
But instead I sit, time moves around me.
In my tiny world, the one I choose
With my tiny dreams, in tiny boxes
Behind tiny windows, watching the view.