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    The Sex Doctor
    The Sex Doctor
    The Sex Doctor
    Ebook58 pages16 minutes

    The Sex Doctor

    By Glenn Telfer

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    Written in bile, a cautionary tale powered by the heat of burned love letters, featuring hypocrisy on the usual scale.

    Inside the shell ancestral genes stir. The mind becomes dirty with greed in all its feline varieties. Men are led like helium balloons on a string to their fate. As guilt unfolds, bursting through the carapace, and providence is viewed on its way bearing the just desserts, blame is required. One call does it all and a suitable sacrificed is made to the SWAT team, while the next balloon is lined up.

    Where bras and panties don’t work and sorries are not on the cards, there is always the police.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlenn Telfer
    Release dateApr 7, 2014
    ISBN9781310298677
    The Sex Doctor
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    Glenn Telfer

    I am now almost fully grown, being born in 1956 in working-class Glasgow, Scotland (from Kinning Park, Dennistoun and Ibrox, if you’re asking). The hammer and tongs, coal-powered world I grew up in is as gone as Troy, and with it the industrial working class that served it. What seemed so solid and forever, disappeared almost overnight and is rapidly becoming unknowable except through people like me. The hasty departure of a way of life and its replacement by globalized uncertainty is both the background to my life and the raw material of my art. Considering what’s gone, what’s here, what’s yet to come is what I’m about; itemising the bill of life through my writing. Other poets have explored this too, but none are as like the poet as he is himself. This is my special qualification. Imagine being able to write a book? Even when I was a wee boy throwing stones and playing street football I wanted to be a writer. And all the while I thought I was living my life backwards and sideways I was actually tracing a Celtic knotwork to here. Whatever the reason for this want, this writing may be the cure. May be is also maybe not.

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      The Sex Doctor - Glenn Telfer

      Emer’s fear: Part A

      Stout

      blood trained up from birth

      on sucrose indulged

      with buns and sweeties

      regarding chocolate

      as a vegetable-but it is! and

      pecan pie as the healthy option.

      Scales were prone to hyperbole

      in a house always fighting

      about who stole who’s

      sweetie stash, certainly

      you had it tough preventing

      bumps from becoming lumps

      granted, it’s hard to fight against

      an enemy that you cannot see

      crafty disaccharide hides inside

      things you were going to polish

      off anyway; a case of have your cake

      and eat it, and then eat another

      by sheer will power alone

      you held the white powder

      madness at bay, so you thought

      but you were wrong

      there was a talisman

      and you lost more

      than your conscience

      when it was sent where

      old diets go

      and, not realising who the

      double agent was,

      you ran out of

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