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    Tequila & Me: Wild Verse, #2
    Tequila & Me: Wild Verse, #2
    Tequila & Me: Wild Verse, #2
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    Tequila & Me: Wild Verse, #2

    By Andrew Sparke

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    A development from the Something Akin To Poetry series - verse more orientated towards his performance duo with Lee Benson, The Incredible Fake Twins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAPS Publications
    Release dateMar 2, 2018
    ISBN9781912309023
    Tequila & Me: Wild Verse, #2
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    Andrew Sparke

    A lawyer and retired local government Chief Executive, Andrew Sparke has reinvented himself as a writer and indie publisher. He owns and manages APS Publications, a vehicle for fiction, poetry, food, travel, sport, erotica, music, photography, health and spirituality, which publishes other indie authors as well as his own work. News and more information is available online at andrew.sparke.com Two novels 'Abuse, Cocaine and Soft Furnishings' and 'Copper Trance & Motorways' are available. A third entitled 'Anger Limerence & Fault Lines' is in preparation.

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      Book preview

      Tequila & Me - Andrew Sparke

      With grateful thanks

      to Greg Brown

      for the title

      and all the songs

      Also by Andrew Sparke

      Gutter Verse & The Baboon Concerto

      The Mother Lode

      Tea Among Kiwis

      Broken English

      Fractured Time

      Refracted Light

      Silent Melodies

      Vital Nonsense

      Wicked Virtue

      Love & Levity

      Abuse Cocaine & Soft Furnishings

      Copper Trance & Motorways

      CONTENTS

      Hair For The Head Jaw and Body

      Summer Time

      On Sunday

      Twisted Logic

      Tequila and Me

      A Child and His Vegetables

      The Kiss

      For She Who Knows...

      Seduction

      God Given

      Wandering

      Fatal Conundrum

      In the Name of God or Allah

      Jihad

      Jihadi Long John

      Abuse

      Lucky Town

      I’m A Driver

      The Hawknose Harlequin

      Read The Book

      The French Braid

      Lost In The Past

      Surface

      Pretties

      Forgiving

      Spectrum

      Survival Is Not Enough

      Senior Moment (Helter Skelter)

      I’m Easy

      In The Night Garden

      In Faith

      Sculpty Park

      The Wolves

      Fate

      Bridges

      Gardens Of The Heart

      Oh No

      Feathers

      An Earring

      To You

      Thai Storm

      Dance Of Life

      Home Alone

      The Tower

      Neo's

      At Closing Time

      Yesterday Has

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