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Tag Archives: nonsense
Impromptu road repair
Last week a girl drowned while swimming in a puddle on Hannah Street. Today two men stop their van outside my window. Their bituminous truck blocks the high street as the driver jumps out, flips down the tailgate and shovels … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry
Tagged absurd, Benjamin F Jones, bitumen, council workers, creative prose, Creative writing, drowning, end of shift, graphite bunny, Hannah street, Humour, impromptu, nonsense, Porth, prose poem, prose poetry, road repair, short prose, surreal, tarmac, wreath
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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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Adorable Cuteness
A pangolin was bathing in mud when a film crew arrived to make a record of his adorable cuteness. ‘Clear off,’ he shouted, ‘your anthropormorphism says more about you than it says about me.’ – Benjamin F Jones
Posted in Humour
Tagged absurd, anthropormorphism, Benjamin F Jones, cctv, Creative writing, film, film crew, graphite bunny, invasion, invasion of privacy, mud, nonsense, pangolin, youtube
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The Spigot: the Origins of Valentine’s Day
The first interpretation of this celebration originates from a small walled city called Luberus. Whilst the city’s defences were being constructed hordes of hungry open countryside armed with brushes and scrubbers roamed outside. To honour the engineers working on the … Continue reading
Posted in Cut-up, Humour, Prose, Prose Poetry
Tagged absurd, bell spawn, Benjamin F Jones, bunny valentine, creative prose, Creative writing, cut up, cut-up, funny, graphite bunny, history of valentine's day, Humour, luberus, microfiction, nonsense, Prose, short prose, snapshot, spigot, valentine, vignette, writing
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A Hypercube and a Klein Bottle
A hypercube and a Klein bottle met at a bar called Minkowski’s. The hypercube drank gin and tapped her corners on the bar when she laughed. The Klein bottle was all curves – he drank whisky straight up but had … Continue reading
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