John Cooper Clarke
English poet
A mobile phone.
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
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What keeps you awake at night?
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What does love feel like?
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Less work, more living.
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A driving licence.
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View profile →To my father, for not telling him the truth when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and going along with the family lie that he had hepatitis, when he knew he didn’t. At the age of 17, I lacked the courage and strength to stand up for what I believed.
I would have been a better listener. I would have pursued more friendships instead of focusing so much on work and myself. I’m doing all that now, but I’m running out of time.
Citizens around the world blaming others for their personal disappointments, othering them, labelling them, terrorising them with hate-filled rhetoric and shutting the doors of their hearts.
Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
Love is a religious experience, which then requires me to define religion, which I define as everything I don’t understand.
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