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Tag Archives: farce
Cargo vessels filled with adjectives
William sat on a tide of dried punctuation marks. The sea was an encore and the cliffs served as a resting place for his shoulders as he made love to a shipping container. On the ocean, cargo vessels filled with … Continue reading
Posted in Humour
Tagged absurd, Benjamin F Jones, bitumen, bp, BP Crisis, contamination, crude oil, crude words, dada, dumplings, ecological disaster, farce, graphite bunny, magic, nonsense, oil spill, plug of hair, prose poem, prose poetry, punctuation, punctuation disaster, shipping containers, surreal, surrealism, william burrows
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Be My Valentine
I was going to write a poem in this card but what the hell rhymes with apotheosis? – Benjamin F Jones
Posted in Humour, Poetry
Tagged 2001, absurd, apotheosis, be my valentine, Benjamin F Jones, card, farce, febuary, graphite bunny, Humour, poem, serious, short poem, valentine, valentine card
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It’s Nearly Christmas
On health and safety grounds and to comply with the terms and conditions of some of our leases – we regret we cannot allow any Christmas lights or any form of decoration that will damage the fabric of our building … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Prose
Tagged 2001, Benjamin F Jones, Brunel House, c109, christmas, christmas lead up, creative prose, Creative writing, decorations, farce, festive, Health and safety, office dystopia, office life, Prose, short, sketch, terms and conditions, tinsel, vignette
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Affected Laborious
The writer’s mind flailed like a kitten in a fan belt. What could he do? He hunched over his typewriter keys; punching words like cold ice into the thin paper membrane. He’d been trying to give up this overblown style … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Prose
Tagged 2001, Benjamin F Jones, cold turkey, experiment, farce, fate, froth of language, funny, graphite bunny, help me, humorous, Humour, kitten, overblown, Prose, purple prose, silly, snapshot, typing, writers, writing, writing life
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Advice column: I Want to Spice Up My Sex Life by having a Ring Test
Sex has gone right off the boil since I cleaned my 19-year marriage with a soft brush and examined it after transit. I thought my sex drive was sound and I checked by tapping gently with a non-metallic implement but … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged abrasive wheels, agony aunt, Benjamin F Jones, buffing machine, farce, grain size, help column, Humour, personal advice, Prose, ring test, sex, sex advice, sex life, silly, spice up my sex life, tapered spinde
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