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Tag Archives: pontypridd
Two dogs and a vagrants hideout
A penny fell behind the till and I went looking for it. During the search I found a dust covered sofa, two dogs and a vagrant’s hideout. The customer I’d served used a ladder in her tights to climb into … Continue reading
Posted in Flash
Tagged 2014, a pint in the skinny dog, anxiety, Benjamin F Jones, cash, cash drawer, consumer bunny, consumerism, creative flash, creative prose, Creative writing, employment issues, flash, graphite bunny, grief and loss, job loss, liquidation, lost penny, penny, pontypridd, prose poem, prose poetry, short prose, skinny dog, suffering, tights, vagrancy
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Regular Disturbance
The first time she calls the police herself from the phone box across the road. She screams like a preacher. ‘When are you going to do something? He’s locked me out again the bastard.’ There are not enough faces at … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Snapshots
Tagged ambulance, August 2002, Benjamin F Jones, broken window, can of cider, Creative writing, destruction, domestic violence, emergency services, every day, flash, graphite bunny, hate, hero, love, marriage, mental health, observation exercise, observer bunny, outdoing, paramedics, phone box, police, pontypridd, Prose, relationships, rickards street, sad, self-esteem, violence
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Platform Ritual
I wait on the platform for a seat that will carry me into town. There is a book in my bag, safe, I touched it before I left the house. I never get my book out on the platform. A … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Snapshots
Tagged alternate universe, alternate world, Benjamin F Jones, book, book in my bag, books, cardiff queen streeet, cathays, commuter bunny, commuting, creative prose, Creative writing, escapism, graphite bunny, llandaff, love reading, October 2000, pages, pontypridd, radyr, reader, reading love, taffs well, thirty-four minutes, trains, trefforest
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Town Centre: Closed Down for Refit
Smeared grease on kerbstone. Cobble fists hard into shoe soles. He avoids eye contact with pigeons pecking at fag buts and spit. Diesel engine taxi rumble. Walking home he glances back to the office. Second floor above the shops. Soot … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Prose Poetry, Scraplets, Snapshots
Tagged beer, boy racers, café, closed for refit, creative prose, Creative writing, drag strip, evening, food, graphite bunny, high street, kebabs, mixed grill, Nefertiti, pontypridd, pontypridd high street, prose poem, prose-poetry, relax, relaxing, town centre, Wales
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It’s the holes that stop it falling down: Pontypridd Bridge
Scuffed river leaning against the back doors of shops tripping over stones. Churning up smell on its way to Cardiff uncertainty where a ghost abattoir spews gutblood into the job centre’s shadow. Frothed. Gas pipe arching over river, spiked ends … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry, Snapshots
Tagged Benjamin F Jones, clwb-y-bont, Creative writing, Creative writing exercises, creative writing pontypridd, description, descriptive, exercise, frenzy, holes, poetry, Ponty bridge, pontypridd, Pontypridd bridge, pontypridd creative writing, prose poem, prose poetry, prose-poetry, river, sketch, the holes that stop it falling down, Wales, writing
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Graphite Bunny 