Life Bites

By Adam Gill

A collection of works reflecting love, loss, happiness, humour, stories, anecdotes and observations which all set to prove that Life Bites...

Excerpts from this book read by the author are available as a play list on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/simply_adam/sets/life-bites-book-excerpts

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781326803940

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Life Bites

LIFE BITES

A Collection of Works

Adam Gill

Copyright © 2016 Adam Gill

Adam Gill asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this ebook.

All rights are reserved.

Previously published as May Contain Nuts… Copyright © 2014 Adam Gill

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Adam Gill.

Published in the United Kingdom

This issue: eBook Version 1

ISBN: 978-1-326-80394-0

LIFE BITES

©2016 - A Gill

CONTENTS

LIGHTER

My Mind Has a Mind of Its Own

I Wish I'd Learnt More English…

Harry’s Secret

The Nonsensical, Never-Ending Poem…

The Pedestrian of Life

LOVE AND LIFE

Words I Wish I Had Planned…

My Storm

It

Our Boat

The Gift (A Lovers' Pledge)

Empty Bed

True Love Ways

A Thousand Things…

Four Seasons

Tuesday

Asleep - Awake - Alone

Asleep

Awake

Alone

LIFE

All for a Shilling

Lost

Night Patrol

Writing's not a Career

Grey Day

My Book

REFLECTIONS

Dream 'A'

Day Watch Series

Day Watch I - Summer Dawn Vigil

Day Watch II - Summer Morning Bustle

Day Watch III - Summer Afternoon Haze

Day Watch IV - Summer Dusk Wish

The Attic (Version I)

STORIES

War of the Worlds (Adaptation of HG Wells)

Trevor

Jim

Reginald Griffin-Hunter - The Squirrel in the Park

The Mist

DARKER

The Edge of Darkness

On The Edge

The Tracks Of My Mind

The Fear

13-7-3

ADVICE

The Coin Toss (Lessons in Life)

Time - And What Not To Do With It…

Help Is At Hand

You're Not The First

Therapy for One - Anger Management

Go On!

Fixing a Hole

The Circle

You Are…

EULOGIES

The Empty Chair

For You

Goodbye, My Love

LIGHTER

My Mind Has a Mind of Its Own

My mind - a complex creature, makes me furious when it’s bad,

It fills me with self-confidence I've no right to have,

Drifting off on a hundred whims it meanders and it strays,

Demanding my full concentration to make it 'sit' and 'stay'.

I feed it very regularly with thoughts and words and deeds,

I give it all the nourishment a growing mind might need,

And how does it repay me, when I knock on the front door?

It can't even remember my PIN Code - er…. it starts with a 4..?

It can play back a whole scene of 'Blackadder' without a single pause,

It can quote a hundred one-liner jokes that've all been heard before,

Its exceptional at recalling a math's score I once got in class,

But can it remember the password I just changed? Can it, my arse!

Yesterday, it knew full well my favorite colour is red,

So why then did I buy a new jacket in black and grey, instead?

Is it sat there sniggering at an 'in' joke that only it knows?

As it leaves me wondering where on earth it really goes!

And where the hell does it go to, when I'm walking on the stair?

Bottom or top, it doesn't matter, I don't recall why I'm there!

Stood, staring blankly out of a window, stirring a spoon in a cup,

The cup is totally empty – but does my mind give a ….?

No, all things considered, my mind's not that helpful at all,

It’s like grasping for information from behind a partitioned wall,

"Can you please tell me where I put my car keys, the last time around?"

That's right – they're in the ignition – doors locked – all safe and sound…

It’s not like I have a choice what stays – not like 'in my head',

My mind has a mind of its own (that's sound deep, now it’s said),

I wouldn't mind if someone unlocked it – or at least gave me a key,

So I could use my mind to think – instead of it using me!

I Wish I'd Learnt More English…

Oh how I wish I'd learnt more English when I attended school,

Then I could've been obstreperous instead of breaking all the rules,

I'd have understood 'posteriorly potent' when I was in class,

Instead of letting a silent one go and blaming my classmate's a**e!

I wouldn't have run anywhere I'd have gamboled or galloped instead,

And I would've spent more time in the library - instead of in