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September 29, 2012
No matter which way the wind blows,
the back draft will catch you out.
No matter how many seeds are sown,
there’ll be no harvest if there’s a drought.
The Bakerloo Line,
the last place that
Gloria saw Ged.
Agreeing the match
was impossible,
they put their
experience to bed.
When the day has been a non-starter,
and you feel like head butting a tree.
Just imagine coming home in the evening,
to juicy lamb chops and me.
If birth came with a guarantee
that one would live to be ninety three.
What extra joy there’d be in store,
to beat the odds, and reach ninety four.
Queuing
Brewing
Stewing
Wooing
Doing
Booing
Loving
Living
Leaving
Crying
Dying
Lying.
The completeness of the moment
with all it’s complexities
is worth a lifetime of sobriety.
By the time she hobbled along the
Champs Elysees she was far too
weary to appreciate it’s splendour.
It had been her lifelong wish to visit
Paris and here she was, lost in the
hullabaloo that is parisienne chaos.
Still looking stunning, but stubbornly
refusing a wheelchair, she clung to me
so tightly that her nails cut into my skin.
Upon reaching the other side of the
boulevard she let go of my arm and
grabbing hold of a metal barrier, said,
‘Help me God, I never knew it was
like this, please help me’.
Some dreams are best left as dreams.
Today is the tomorrow one wastes
yearning for yesterday.
September 23, 2012
He spent his life in the ‘sin bin’,
both on the field and off.
Often arriving home legless, through
copious amounts he liked to quaff.
For a change she was speechless,
dumbfounded, agog.
When she saw to her cost,
what he’d written on his blog.