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Author Archives: A S H Smyth

IT consultant

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Ctrl.-Alt.-Delete.? Still nothing? Oh.

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Old dog, New World

Sunday, March 13, 2011

SOSL New World Concert   Arriving at Ladies’ College at the seventh hour, game-faced and Chooty drawn, I was informed that the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka’s New World Concert was sold out.* While a few hundred rupees for an evening’s live music remains a pretty good deal, I have to confess this eventuality had […]

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Troubles with women

Sunday, February 20, 2011

– M turned up at work today, and cried. – N miscarried, and didn’t.

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Couched

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

I am a textbook case of every neurosis to affect the 30-year-old male. Which is to say I think I am entirely normal.

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Periodically

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

About once a month our sex-life tails off, and I wonder if she doesn’t love me any more.

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pudendum

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

In the shower, my girlfriend makes me turn away while she shaves between her legs. Perhaps I’m supposed to believe her ex-‘s initials grow there naturally.

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Poem about everything

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Things are as they are. Must one write a damn poem about everything?

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hatched.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Don’t count your tachyons before they are

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Criticism, summarised

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Some people liked Stravinsky for being Stravinsky. Others did not. What can you do.

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Tragedy defined

Sunday, January 30, 2011

A beautiful girl eats chips with her mouth open. ‘The average age of everybody…’ she begins.

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