Collected Words

Like a magpie for shiney phrases, these words are not my own but they are my favourite. I collect these from road signs, songs, stories and conversations.

That's future me

Mike Skinner

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You were born brave

Helen Bullock

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Almost as regularly as possible

Anon

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I am the sky

Chris Cornell

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Take extra care

Motorway signage

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Danger

Falling rocks

Coastal signage

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Wreck your assumptions

Fell off the world

Helen Macdonald

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Wear the old out first

Rhoda Brewin via her mum

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Munching miles by the second

I could change the topography of Chetnole with that machine

It's a hell of a thing to steer a brain

Philip Rae Scott

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Guest is god

Jimmy Umrigar via India

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Insanities repeated often enough, especially between friends, can be pacifying

Desert Island Discs?

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The best anarchists don't show they're anarchists

Joe Rush

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Weeds are flowers too, or something like that

A.A. Milne via Graeme next door

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Hold and press
Crack
Bury the epic
Deep in the nether
To love the light you must first have been buried in the deep down dark

Exasperated friend
How easy
Stealing time
Delving down
Dig chip clink

You’re the change in the weather
Unthinkably ancient
Smudge

Filling the cupboards and the crates and the drawers of the British museum

Follow patterns join cracks
Mythshatter retell reality
I am a boat all I can see is water
Time told in bird wings in tree rings
No matter the weight no matter the weather

We are often more tender to the dead
He is done with his dying
Shake off my shadow
Sky closing in the stars are on fire
Turning all that’s living into stuff
Wind that was made to sing

We have never been modern

The hope that grows