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    Backwards and Forwards: A Journey Through Life
    Backwards and Forwards: A Journey Through Life
    Backwards and Forwards: A Journey Through Life
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    Backwards and Forwards: A Journey Through Life

    By Simon Smith

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateSep 21, 2010
    ISBN9781453573198
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      Backwards and Forwards - Simon Smith

      Copyright © 2010 by Simon Smith.

      Library of Congress Control Number:       2010913267

      ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4535-7318-1

                         Softcover                                 978-1-4535-7317-4

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4535-7319-8

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

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      Index

      Acknowledgements

      and thanks

      About this book

      Backwards

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      Always looking backwards

      Echoes

      Ode to an Apple

      Looking Out the Office Window

      Dreams

      Loud

      Happy

      At the end; a beginning

      The Albatross

      The Absolute Paper

      Finish it

      Rage

      Play The Game?

      Princess

      Mollusc

      No sign of yesterday

      World’s a Stage?

      Night Driving

      South

      Just another . . . .

      My Father’s Grave

      Yellow Brick Road of Life

      Bored!

      Vacuum

      I went to India

      For Syd

      Forwards

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      Girl

      Great!

      When we met

      Last Night . . . .

      Match

      Loving in your eyes

      One toothbrush . . . .

      Manna from Heaven

      My hand on your skin

      I’d love to tell you

      I love you

      The story of my poems

      Acknowledgements

      and thanks

      All the people in my life who have helped, hurt, loved and generally taken care of me in oh so many ways have helped shape the person I am today.

      I especially want to thank Dorothy and Geoffrey who made me; my sisters who have been a source of joy, inspiration, frustration and teasing all of my life; Jayne, who bullied me into making an effort to find a partner and drag myself out of my misery; but above and beyond anyone is

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