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Penail Peter

Posted on 21 July 202621 July 2026 by Oli Spleen

Oli Spleen Waking after the long deep sleep that often followed a strenuous evening’s session pumping glutinous white puddles of fluid across scraps of paper, salvaged from magazines and underwear catalogues – it was not unusual for Peter to find some irregular blemishes, sores and friction burns on his overworked member. Peter had been masturbating…

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Building

Posted on 8 July 202620 July 2026 by Karina Patfield

Karina Patfield The building is old. It smells a little musty from every aspect, every corner. Dust settles on vertical windows and mould creeps into not-quite-right-angled corners. It creaks and sighs. The building is split into flats. Doors face forwards and sideways and backwards. Letters are put in holes. Fragile connective strands hang, taut in…

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Poem

We’re a largely text-based outfit here, so you’re going to find a few poets lurking.

Beginnings

Out of the primordial gooo
A beginning
Birth red and writhe like maggot
On the untrod surface of its earth
Gasp the first untainted breath
Flush lung from liquid’s grasp
And writhe toward your unknown future
All was written from scratched beginnings
Fragments scraped from disparate corners
No truths true but paradox
All logic mere invention
All walls built with nothing but
Bricks and mortar / sand and water
And all sand slips away in time
Structures crumble
Empires fall
And life begins again
Of a new primordial rubble

Oli Spleen, 2000

This section is meant for local poets. Submit your poems to info@hastings-examiner.uk. They’ll be added to our archive and eventually featured here.

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