Today’s poem Caution: the odd poem may contain swear words. All’s will, until… If everything’s down to the will of some God Does prayer, belief, help the church-going plod? Stories, parables claimed gospel in old books Translated, Anglicised to give it ‘the looks’ Names like M...
She berated me for taking too long at the top of the staircase. Then, with a tap on my back, she pushed me. I tumbled down the steps like a rag doll. I knew I had injured my head as soon as I hit the bottom step. This was the first of a series of concussions that I ...
Platoon was ripped from his experiences in Vietnam, offering a grunt’s-eye perspective on war that the 1970s titans like The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now didn’t quite match. Charlie Sheen plays a soldier whose loyalty is divided between Tom Berenger’s caustic Barnes and Willem Dafoe’s...