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<span style="font-size: 0.8em;">Sidekick Advent Calendar 2017</span></div>
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}<div class="jus">I will make of thee a great nati</div>
<div class="jus">nation of sailors and inventors</div>
<div class="jus">ndon 2012, ‘Inspire a generatio</div>
<div class="jus">so cocky about itself as it used</div>
<div class="jus">hainsmokers ‘Don’t let me dow</div>
<div class="jus">f I could tell you how sorry I a</div>
<div class="jus">taking control of these borders</div>
<div class="jus">ummer 2016, here’s the lesson:</div></div>
<div class="author">Andrea Tallarita</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">1</div></div>](if: $day > 1)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">dle had been polished until</div>
<div class="jus">ripping through the seams.</div>
<div class="jus">waddling clothes?” “I bet yo</div>
<div class="jus">een.” “Virginal, my ass,” Sal</div>
<div class="jus">hhord. “Bah! Hum along, you</div>
<div class="jus">ple. She rested her hand on th</div>
<div class="jus">ip up, notes fluttering like a tr</div>
<div class="jus">her and higher. “Like honey,”</div></div>
<div class="author">Peg Duthie</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">2</div></div>](if: $day > 2)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">better when the music is</div>
<div class="jus">centre stage, is a physical</div>
<div class="jus">manifestation of a, so much</div>
<div class="jus">more than that, a</div>
<div class="jus">frilly jukebox of</div>
<div class="jus">exploration frippery</div>
<div class="jus">disguised as meaning as</div>
<div class="jus">ostentation as profound as</div></div>
<div class="author">Rishi Dastidar</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">3</div></div>](if: $day > 3)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">The tense revisited. Better</div>
<div class="jus">shrift, shroud, count a pain</div>
<div class="jus">nfettered. Trails turn back</div>
<div class="jus">now juddery, crass & cross </div>
<div class="jus">up, side down ... Delineated </div>
<div class="jus">line, a crease in the surface</div>
<div class="jus">could be referred to as sky</div>
<div class="jus">Such un/intentional gain</div></div>
<div class="author">Linda Black</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">4</div></div>]
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}<div class="jus">The room, a dense blue</div>
<div class="jus">under a thick canopy of</div>
<div class="jus">pictures of the Virgin M</div>
<div class="jus">a small set of drawers i</div>
<div class="jus">s hooded by a mosquito</div>
<div class="jus">two girls are folded into</div>
<div class="jus">sheets and things on the</div>
<div class="jus">single mattress, singing.</div></div>
<div class="author">Andrea Mbarushimana</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">5</div></div>]
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}<div class="jus">Artless there wanders a</div>
<div class="jus">person in weary dress</div>
<div class="jus">troubled in captivity here</div>
<div class="jus">shall it rest the sovereign</div>
<div class="jus">state love-pulsed in stars</div>
<div class="jus">ancient courses and cycles</div>
<div class="jus">fixed into heavenly space</div>
<div class="jus">echoing what call it creates</div></div>
<div class="author">Desmond Swords</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">6</div></div>](if: $day > 6)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">and then how the more I</div>
<div class="jus">is full of dead ends and</div>
<div class="jus">work are just bright lights</div>
<div class="jus">Vegas is off-putting to</div>
<div class="jus">I just mean that when the</div>
<div class="jus">and anything abandoned</div>
<div class="jus">me sad but it’s part of the</div>
<div class="jus">try and avoid these holes</div></div>
<div class="author">Chrissy Williams</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">7</div></div>](if: $day > 7)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">Carefully read all the instru</div>
<div class="jus">Firstly, and with great stea</div>
<div class="jus">Secondly, and from a glass</div>
<div class="jus">Twenty-four pearl droplets</div>
<div class="jus">Thirdly, sieve through a m</div>
<div class="jus">Do not stir. Wait until disp</div>
<div class="jus">Cover tightly. Place the pot</div>
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<div class="author">Phil Monks</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">8</div></div>](if: $day > 8)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">kitchen, my feet. You talke</div>
<div class="jus">buds in my shoulders twist</div>
<div class="jus">sell shampoo. Walk natural</div>
<div class="jus">balance, like champagne th</div>
<div class="jus">bland, blond, worth a look</div>
<div class="jus">lemon, ice, long low kiss</div>
<div class="jus">get sad, practice flight cont</div>
<div class="jus">honeyed drinks, adman’s d</div></div>
<div class="author">Rose Cook</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">9</div></div>](if: $day > 9)[<div class="window">{
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<div class="author">Matt Haigh</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">10</div></div>](if: $day > 10)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">hed clods slide through cracks</div>
<div class="jus">into the cluttered carcass.</div>
<div class="jus"></div>
<div class="jus">agines slow-melting pin block,</div>
<div class="jus">key frame, shank and flange,</div>
<div class="jus">atter of hammers and damper,</div>
<div class="jus">ints of bridge pins, hitch pins,</div>
<div class="jus">and the bones of strings.</div></div>
<div class="author">Roberta James</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">11</div></div>]
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}<div class="jus">hen the uncles with puce</div>
<div class="jus">faces took off their jacke</div>
<div class="jus">unts’ pink slip straps slid</div>
<div class="jus">lying ants come up from</div>
<div class="jus">oroccans are playing car</div>
<div class="jus">vements are learning the</div>
<div class="jus">songs of fading footstep</div>
<div class="jus">emory takes it or leav</div></div>
<div class="author">Phil Madden</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">12</div></div>]
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}<div class="jus">measure the quick breath</div>
<div class="jus">what might not be behind</div>
<div class="jus">Gamesters at play; cunning</div>
<div class="jus">their traps with subtle skill</div>
<div class="jus">courage, and thus planning</div>
<div class="jus">danger, death, love, disap-</div>
<div class="jus">any of these might respond</div>
<div class="jus">heard inside, and the door</div></div>
<div class="author">Abigail Parry</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">13</div></div>]
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}<div class="jus">I noticed your beard. Blue</div>
<div class="jus">yes, but something more</div>
<div class="jus">impossible </div>
<div class="jus">rprised me. The chance of</div>
<div class="jus">atoms</div>
<div class="jus">the dark of space, in the</div>
<div class="jus">beginning explain it? The</div>
<div class="jus">pull, the gravity of</div></div>
<div class="author">Lesley Sharpe</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">14</div></div>](if: $day > 14)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">Gift in the mouth and take</div>
<div class="jus">measurement of the m1</div>
<div class="jus">talonid. Behind the M1</div>
<div class="jus">metacone not quite as tall</div>
<div class="jus">as the paracone cuts to</div>
<div class="jus">wear and tear the</div>
<div class="jus">pinecone a prominent wear</div>
<div class="jus">surface says white wish</div></div>
<div class="author">Julia Rose Lewis</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">15</div></div>](if: $day > 15)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">times I can’t get enough</div>
<div class="jus">them sliced with egg at</div>
<div class="jus">ed on my toast at lunch on</div>
<div class="jus">my salad in the evening</div>
<div class="jus">on my lover’s abdomen</div>
<div class="jus">metimes I take my</div>
<div class="jus">ammer them into my ears</div>
<div class="jus">Theresa May comes on</div></div>
<div class="author">Rob Walton</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">16</div></div>](if: $day > 16)[<div class="window">{
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<div class="author">Astra Papachristodoulou</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">17</div></div>](if: $day > 17)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">ear! Oh dear! I shall be to</div>
<div class="jus">r butter had stopped his w</div>
<div class="jus">wish I hadn’t cried so muc</div>
<div class="jus">ouse, do you know the wa</div>
<div class="jus">lip through a keyhole strid</div>
<div class="jus">t’s the mouth that first app</div>
<div class="jus">hose are not the right word</div>
<div class="jus">secret kept from all the res</div></div>
<div class="author">Richard Westcott</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">18</div></div>]
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}<div class="jus">It is 7:32 in Redhill on a Sunda</div>
<div class="jus">yes it is and there is a small stac</div>
<div class="jus">boy at the foot of the bed and he is</div>
<div class="jus">saying Lady Di’s died and I</div>
<div class="jus">him with a Princess as mothers</div>
<div class="jus">do with small, staccato boys</div>
<div class="jus">and as I’m waking from the</div>
<div class="jus">daze I say How? and he says In</div></div>
<div class="author">Jill Munro</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">19</div></div>](if: $day > 19)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">the empty fields, plough</div>
<div class="jus">precisely angled, row on</div>
<div class="jus">g the lines of trenches</div>
<div class="jus">ter year they come</div>
<div class="jus">e furrows where the whe</div>
<div class="jus">enriched by iron, blood</div>
<div class="jus">nly, part of a furrow see</div>
<div class="jus">g, chasing , brown agai</div></div>
<div class="author">Sandra Horn</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">20</div></div>](if: $day > 20)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">awake, a shivering bubble</div>
<div class="jus">in a spirit level. It expands</div>
<div class="jus">puffer fish, scales poised in</div>
<div class="jus">a bowl you are hungry to</div>
<div class="jus">operate. Then: a chance of</div>
<div class="jus">stillness. Today, a seizure</div>
<div class="jus">meal. A sorbet headache</div>
<div class="jus">snowfall, the sheer cost of</div></div>
<div class="author">James Midgley</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">21</div></div>](if: $day > 21)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">It ferments from oak to</div>
<div class="jus">hundred year old mother</div>
<div class="jus">Smell it changing my</div>
<div class="jus">virus would order us</div>
<div class="jus"> for one ciao and down</div>
<div class="jus"> Atomic level,</div>
<div class="jus"> eternal</div>
<div class="jus">I said to my body (my body</div></div>
<div class="author">Claire Crowther</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">22</div></div>](if: $day > 22)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">dropped by on christmas e</div>
<div class="jus">the tops of the houses to no</div>
<div class="jus">fat lips round the black tree</div>
<div class="jus">sucking them down to spin</div>
<div class="jus">like holes in the cushion of</div>
<div class="jus">that night, like saliva, dripp</div>
<div class="jus">y thick with the madness o</div>
<div class="jus">all like old sweets, together</div></div>
<div class="author">Polly Atkin</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">23</div></div>](if: $day > 23)[<div class="window">{
}<div class="jus">I will live in the Past, the</div>
<div class="jus">re. The Spirits of all Three</div>
<div class="jus">ill not shut out the lessons</div>
<div class="jus">me I may sponge away the</div>
<div class="jus"></div>
<div class="jus">caught the spectral hand. It</div>
<div class="jus">was strong in his entreaty.</div>
<div class="jus">spirit, stronger yet, repulse</div></div>
<div class="author">Claire Trévien</div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">24</div></div>]{
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}<div class="jus">watched, a human-shape</div>
<div class="jus">flowers in a shallow bed</div>
<div class="jus">churned. Laid out on the</div>
<div class="jus">heart, hangar deck and head</div>
<div class="jus">light, warming to a fat glow</div>
<div class="jus">in the jig of morning. Well,</div>
<div class="jus">ice cream, whiskey, walnut</div>
<div class="jus">eyes bedight with your own </div></div>
<div class="author">Jon Stone</div></div>
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<div class="jus">whether I find the others or</div>
<div class="jus">soon, as soon as I can.</div>
<div class="jus">Under the moon, the road</div>
<div class="jus">forest gleamed like water,</div>
<div class="jus">away from the trees, she fe</div>
<div class="jus">long. She almost turned ba</div>
<div class="jus">deep breath of the woods</div>
<div class="jus">held it in her mouth, like a</div></div>
<div class="author">Kirsten Irving</div></div>](else:)[<div class="door"><div class="doornumber">25</div></div>]