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The "C Word"

Benedict — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:20:35 +0100

I really like the "C word",

I say it when I'm cross.

I say it to my mummy,

I say it to my boss.

I say it in the garden,

I say it in the street,

I say it to the strangers

I'd otherwise not meet.

It makes me feel so common

When dropping off the T.

Forty years ago, a more demure and some would say, better looking human being, Karen Carpenter, lambasted the easy target of a day with "Rainy Days and Mondays", harmonising in her angelic way that they always got her down.

Then of...

Open Letter to My Hair

Benedict — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:13:46 +0100

Dear My Hair

I am writing to you with a tear in my eye and a cool breeze across my scalp.

It has proven very difficult for me to muster up the courage to write this to you. However, I think both you and I know the time has come.

This morning, as you may have realised, I cut you out of my life completely. I had spoken to a few close friends who had persuaded me that it was way past overdue that I stopped clinging on to our relationship. So I did.

I remember th...