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Class Piece TwoAfter a dogged wait in the roaring sun I finally got on the flea-ridden bus where a pack of mangy curs were herded together like in a tin of sardines.

The most boorish of these swine was a giraffe necked mongrel with a face like a warthog. He was boasting a horrible hat that looked like a dead badger that was tied up with a rattlesnake.

This porpoise like capon started to crow when an an old bat began flapping at his jowls with fanged fury. He soon waddled down in the direction of the seat she had vacated. It was still sopping with her condensation as I bounded off the bus.

Class Piece OneEarly that day the weather turned and snow was melting into water."-Little Things by Raymond Carver.

The stream trickled and gurgled as it swelled with snow-melt. The banks thawed and snowdrops sprung up, freed from their icy prison.

A small hand, like a young girl might have, hung over the babbling brook. It was white and limp and the thin fingertips dipped into the cold, cloudy brown water.

Feet crunched nearby. An early morning jogger came along the narrow path, slowing to a standstill as he saw an obstruction ahead. He pulled out the earphone he had in, as he realised what looking at in horror.

Within the hour, tape surrounded the sce

The Class, or Her RoomRed door, like dried blood, with a stainless steel meet-hook for a handle
Blue carpet like arctic sea, white walls like in a mental asylum
A set of beige door and brown bodied lockers to the hind left
They are almost like wardens out of the corner of your eye

The tables, meanwhile, have metal legs painted brown
And could be used for bastinado rods if need be
The table tops are laminated dirty beige
A brown base of could-be tanned skin on regurgitated chipboard

Three rows of them and a pin-board of psychedelic pain at the back
On the either side, four rows and another of lockers at the back
Her varnished desk at the front like a rope

The Crypt SpiritThe Crypt Spirit is a supernatural creature; some liken it to the dog that is buried in a new graveyard in order to guard the dead, but it is different.

For example, it protects crypts, not graves in the ground. It is more commonly found in New Orleans than England, and it does not have one static form; indeed, it is a shape-shifter. The Spirit can morph into whatever form it desires, or adopt the shape of a beast or thing that the body-snatcher is most terrified of.

A common materialisation is that of a dragon kneeling in the brickwork, followed by that of the Devil laughing with his horned head thrown back and arm outstretched as if he is

That Tin of TapiocaI am that tin of tapioca
That nobody wants

Battered, bent, my label peeling off
My shelf-date past and eat-by nearly gone
Even the drunks from the pub do not want me

I will hide at the back of the shelf
Behind the slimming products
And the healthy option packets of pasta
The stackers will not get me

I will be not be consigned
To the reduced stock shelf just yet
A dodgy brand surrounded
By taped boxes and loners, loose bags

The multitude of skinflints and bargain hunters
Will not scrutinise me, weight me up
Bang me back down on the metal slab
Until, one day
When I am completely
Defunct, past it, out-of-date

The stackers

Alas, BubblesYou were named after the Finding Nemo character
The yellow tang from Australia
As you were both the same species
Where he liked bubbles, hence your name
You liked swimming at the front of the big tank
Whose clear face was frequently algae'd

The other fish seemed to ignore you
You were alone, the clownfish and the blue fish
Had their pairs
But you, like the giant grey brittle-star that I term
The Kraken
Were single, on your own alienated, by yourself

You were see-through, most days
Not your personality, but your electric yellow body
We could see the gravel in your belly
And remarked that it was creepy, weird

It was strang

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Machrie Moor Triadby ~Jacobea

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This is the last Arran photo, i swear

I hope this comes out all right-on the last day, which is when i took this, the weather turned crap

Machrie Moor standing stones-no particular name has been granted to these three that i know of, so i am just calling it a triad

The moor itself has a whole load of Neolitic to Bronze Age structures scattered across it, like the outlines of roundhouses and monoliths

PS-No Stealing! This is mine, d'yer hear me

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~klmarsala Jun 6, 2008

i absolutley love this work. magical in its presentation and composition. had to be hard to get i am sure.

~Jacobea Jun 7, 2008 Hobbyist Writer

It was more a case of "is my £300 camera waterproof?! Oh well, sucks if it isn't!" (it was though, thankfully)

Although i did have to wait for my class to shuffle out of the way too

Ta for the comment!

~klmarsala Jun 7, 2008

u r welcome and could you send some rain our way? eesh we need it!

~Jacobea Jun 7, 2008 Hobbyist Writer

Britain has plenty-seems like we're going to get a traditional, wet summer

~Goodbye-kitty975 May 24, 2008 Photographer

in a word this looks: epic.

~Jacobea May 24, 2008 Hobbyist Writer

Thanks muchly

~loft08 Apr 19, 2008

Great Shot!!!

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~Jacobea Apr 19, 2008 Hobbyist Writer

Thanks

~give-peace-a-dance Apr 19, 2008

...beautiful shot. great composition, & the mist adds so much... lovely.

~Jacobea Apr 19, 2008 Hobbyist Writer

Much thanks-glad you liked it

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