Miss Wong
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Miss Wong: she used to be sold by the millions from branches of Boots the Chemist in Britain in the sixties and seventies. Now she tends to turn up in second-hand stores and charity shops, which is where I found her. A few years later, at a time of slender means, I had to sell her on to second-hand store. It was a tough decision, and one I still regret to this day. But I know in my heart, that one day, in a charity shop somewhere, Miss Wong, Someday, We'll Meet Again. The title of this slim volume of podcast poems comes from "Charity Shop" the first in the collection. Each podcast features one or more poems written by my good self, Mike Bennett, between 2004 - 2005. Most of them from the late summer of 2004 when I decided to write a poem every day about anything that came to mind. The poems in this collection take the form of streams-of-consciousness, narratives, reveries, reflections and word-snapshots. This isn't poetry as I learned it in school, it may not even be poetry at all. It's only purpose was ever really to help me remember things that otherwise I may have forgotten. And maybe when you listen, even though you weren't there, maybe they'll help you remember something of your life too.
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