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Walnuts
At the top of Camden Road, where the headlights peel off from Highbury, and the buses rush down from Tottenham, at eight in the evening, after the rain…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Jan 9
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May 2022
/ A Blind Guy
It’s the best thing about it, this ability we have to bring out the good in people, how we give them the opportunity to be kind. When I came out as…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
May 11, 2022
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March 2022
/ Conversation in a Dream
It was night. I think it was raining. Ahead I saw a long, low vehicle blocking my way. Flows of water slid down its armoured side. I pressed forward…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Mar 10, 2022
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November 2021
/ Ignorance
Near Waterloo, I stopped at a dark crossroads, unsure of the path ahead. I turned and saw two figures coming towards me. The man was my height and about…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Nov 3, 2021
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August 2021
/ East Croydon Castle
The train waits, hissing. East Croydon. This is East Croydon. Eyes half-closed I look out the window and see the ruins of a castle. How? Surely not, not…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Aug 25, 2021
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/ Last Moments Of My Life
a fantasy
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Aug 4, 2021
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July 2020
/ First Date
We'll meet by the church on the corner of Goose Green, we said. It should take me twenty minutes to get there. I’ve got a good stride going, striking…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Jul 2, 2020
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March 2020
/ Social Distancing
People avoid me when they see the cane. They cross the road as I approach, flatten themselves against railings, hide behind trees. I tap along the…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Mar 27, 2020
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February 2020
/ Two Bouncers
In the queue for a bar in a town I barely know, and this one looks like a mean bastard. Pinched face, pockmarked scalp, checking everyone’s IDs. He’s…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Feb 19, 2020
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/ Soft Matter
On one hand, years ago, before I used a cane, I was walking down Kingsway towards the river. There was scaffolding up on Africa House, which meant a…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Feb 16, 2020
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January 2020
/ Exercises In Empathy
In this series, five friends imagine themselves in my shoes and write an entry for the diary. 1. After the last few months, today wasn’t such a bad day…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Jan 16, 2020
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December 2019
/ Party
In the kitchen someone switches off the lights and sets the music front and centre, full and pumping. I lean against the cabinets near the sink and…
Joe Rizzo Naudi
Dec 18, 2019
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