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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 12d

As one window shuts (@iambapoet.com), another opens – and this one's for the whole of October.

If you have an 'after' or #ekphrastic poem that's looking for a home, that home could be @afterpoetry.com.

So go on. Send it in.

afterpoetry.com/submit

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 14h

Canford Heath, Poole, UK. Or it was, 20+ years ago. And I'm not even the OP.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 21h

Not now there's ChatGPT.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 23h

Wireless earbuds – even true wireless ones (there is a difference; don't make me Google for you) – can be had for around £20. Pretty small price to pay to avoid noise pollution.

Besides, anyone giving £250 cans to a kid is a show-off who's just trying to make the parents of other kids feel poor.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 23h

I had an ex-wife with similar. Glad that's over.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 23h

I would love to be you. I can't abide mess and tat all over the place. If folk just put things away properly after using them, the idea of 'blitzing' the house every few months wouldn't need to exist. You CAN live with a whole lot less than you think – and contentedly so, at that. TIDY THE FUCK UP!

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 23h

Technically, 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' is a brilliantly produced and recorded song. Look up the breakdown of it on TikTok. But surely 'Shout' tops it? So bold, spare but anthemic – it can still go toe to toe with modern pop tunes after 41 years. As for Crowded House, 'Weather With You'?

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 23h

Exceptional reply! 👏🏼

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

Other parents at the school gates aren't your friends. They're your fellow hostages. Don't make the ordeal worse by adding each other to WhatsApp groups.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 1d

My Kia Carens is a seven-seater. The number seven is significant here ...

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

Or just another day for pictures of pussy ...

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

Yeah, but his estate's beneficiaries are.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

Paul Gadd (Glitter's real name) receives NO royalties from any of his hits. This has been established in law for some time now.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

Probably next to the sofa ...

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

What about her? She okay?

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

That just means, 'We put it on skin'.

Okay, great. What were the fucking results? Did the rabbit break out in blisters?

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

Everyone? Really?

I know this all hyperbolic rhetoric, but honestly, I've never given Pluto more than a few minutes' thought.

It's millions of fucking miles away, inhospitable to carbon-based life (so far as we know), and I'm never, ever going there for a holiday.

Also, Pluto isn't sentient.

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

And yes, I hear your arguments about it probably being a chatroom filled either with men posing as lesbians or far fewer actual gay women than appeared to be the case. But the chats being had would've bored most (horny) men to tears, driving them out almost immediately. I liked it in there, though.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 2d

Depends on the chatroom. For six months over the winter of '98/'99, I posed as a woman in a lesbian chatroom. Only one lady rumbled me – but because I wasn't making a nuisance of myself and instead just joining in with various (non-sexual) conversations, she never told anyone there.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 3d

This one (bullshit though it is – no one's taking a kid's drawing as conclusive evidence of a potato parasite that risks ruining an entire crop ... unless the farm is on the Isle of Man) has really gone over your head, hasn't it?

𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 3d

Or in a commercial airliner full of passengers as it slams into a mountainside.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 3d

I know. I worked in the turn-of-this-century bullshit media world. Kept looking round the studio for hidden cameras ...

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 3d

Haven't shared much poetry by others here recently. Been (and still am) too preoccupied with auditions for @iambapoet.com and subs for @afterpoetry.com ... which are still open till the end of this month, by the way. 😉

Anyhow, I just had to share this by @victoriaspires.bsky.social.

bit.ly/4nCLzAy