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It Happens All at Once
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — It happens all at once. One day you’ll wake up, wash and dress and say- I really must do all that work then make things neat and...
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To Die Would Be an Awfully Big Adventure
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — Peter says you’re growing up too fast. Says you’re getting too big for your tree and we can’t let you stay here forever. You’ve...
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Pins and Needles
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — Red Riding Hood stared at the wolf man at the crossroads at the path of needles and the path of pins. The meaning was lost on...
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Slug Guts, or Entosthia Gymnosalianga
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — A boy spread strawberry jam on his toast, his father watched and they stood a minute. How come strawberries taste wet and...
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Coloured pottery lid, Egyptology
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — A big blue circle drawn with long, wavy arches, uneven edges all round, faded and dull. The curves are sunbeams, painted for Ra...
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Pram
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast Published in the Live From Worktown 2014 anthology — A bakery, takeaway, charity shop, Chicco logo, scuffed shiny grey plastic...
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The Right Thing
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — Doing the right thing is easy, but it isn’t much of a thing. You get a little bold, a little brave, but then, oh, you have to do...
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Bubblegum Pop
by Chris Buchanan Poetry, 2013 From the collection Growing Up Too Fast — I want to pipe bubblegum pop through white headphones, to you in one earbud and me in the other then drop it on the tarmac as a...
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