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Another poem

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Nov 19, 2023
  • 1 min read

These are enervating to make, but they're hilarious to read: The police have never spoken to me

I'm not wanted.

This means I refuse and no deal

She always

Unconditional tolerance

No he at Parliament either or I say no

She always

unconditional tolerance

I said cast Ingrid

I said that was a good idea

She can really act, I can't

She directs too.

That's why I refuse to let you exploit me, bigots and haters

that's all

only no

No Owen, only no

You and Jane are not welcome in my life

Not coming to Guitar Society

If Mike mentions that, I quit

Learn to tolerate me and to write me emails rather than doing this

Real emails = real discussions = tolerance

No, I'm continuing like this until tolerance becomes unconditional


I've already stepped you down by telling you that you're making me want to kill myself

Now, I'm stepping you down to accepting my IP is my choice and my right to refuse

Then I'll step you down to what I might do, which includes my documentaries, my 2030 musical and perhaps something which is a compromise


that's the baseline. No tina, that's for my book


Until that book is written; this ceases

Straight... I was never straight

This is how I fight

I don't want to 'be love'

that love doesn't come back to me

That love doesn't result in emails

That love has only cost me thousands

That means I don't want to do it anymore

Only no

I know it's a great script. That's why I rejected your revisions and published that version with my Big Smoke film

That means the folk songs are the songs

That means that Cass isn't Caliope

That means that Michelle had bloody better well be nicer to me if she wants to shoot it

Unprompted emails

Unconditional tolerance

These are my demands





That's fair.

 
 

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