The rain pisses down from the sky. Swollen clouds amass like armies. They have the look of two large scholarly grey eyebrows crowding into a frown of disappointment.
I suppose so. This blog should really be you workshopping me.
Pisses is less wordy than urinates, but really, I quite liked the idea of making it akin to a man or a woman urinating. But pisses does work as the typical idiom of Glasgow rain talk.
McGuire: A thin Glaswegian man, touch giddy in the head, sometimes poet of mangled form and dirty prose, sporadic drummer, drunk grammarian, waffler, painter using crayons, lover, hater, learner, teacher, pedestrian, provocateur, wanderer, confronter of shadows, irritating whine.
Produced a collection of poetry and short stories - Riddle With Errors - and is currently writing another for release in the coming year or more.
Contact - colmcguire AT hotmail DOT com
ALL WORK FEATURED ON THIS BLOG IS UNFINISHED.
3 comments:
Nicely observed although 'urinates' seems out of place. Why not simply 'pisses'?
I suppose so. This blog should really be you workshopping me.
Pisses is less wordy than urinates, but really, I quite liked the idea of making it akin to a man or a woman urinating. But pisses does work as the typical idiom of Glasgow rain talk.
But pish or piss? I thought you might be pishers over there.
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