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What a lovely find cath xxx

basically the government has used up the countries gold reserves to pay off all its mounting debts….. we as a country are bankrupted, or as near as damn it. The money is getting borrowed from peter to pay paul now…… and peter is charging an arm and a leg and paul is a spendthrift.

Or something like that…. well thats one explanation anyhow.

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”

Hamlet quote (Act II, Sc. II).

I played a link tobulldog put up and there was an old record player with vinyl spinning, and it reminded me of something I wrote a while ago now. Sorry if you’ve read this one before.

Volition

Always other people’s choices for as long as I can remember.
Their favourite melodies spinning beneath diamond
Not mine.
Never mine.
But music played i…[Read more]

Truth is Truth! To the end of reckoning.

Measure for Measure

a number 7 bus – the trains weren’t running that day.

Ah! in what a monstrous moment of pride and passion he had
prayed that the portrait should bear the burden of his days,
and he keep the unsullied splendour of eternal youth!
All his failure had been due to that. Better for him that each sin
of his life had brought its sure swift penalty along with it.
There was purification in punishment. Not…[Read more]

knowledge

ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?’

So she was considering, in her own mind (as…[Read more]

Well thats why I posted the link… I guess I really should give credit to all works.

So from now on, I will do so, though I still think the words should stand on their own merit.

tsh tsh….. have you never quoted live poets?

I don’t think the fear of getting lung cancer is enough to make someone quit. And nor are all the other myriad diseases it causes, like peripheral neuropathy, where your blood supply is reduced to your fingers and toes and they go black and drop off, or chronic obstructive airways disease, which slowly limits the oxygen you can take out of the…[Read more]

I was trawling the net looking for works by Wendy Cope and I found this. It is extremely relevant both to this thread and to Esme’s take on my missing out the name of the poem and the author.

I won’t post the poem for obvious reasons, but please link to it and read. Maybe we shouldn’t be posting other people’s work at all!

The Law of Copyright…[Read more]

Pepper thank you :)
The standard here is so staggeringly good at times, I am almost embarrassed to post.

But hey… if you don’t put it out there, you don’t have the impetus to do better .. or at least to try to.

*goes to look and see who Wendy Cope is* :)

Pink.. for every person who says.. God I wish I could…….

There is a person who has.

And you can too.

I love that moment of epiphany
That moment when you realise something important, and can act upon it
I love my daughter, more than the air I breathe
I love the fact that the past is memorable, and the future a place to make more memories.
I love the fact that I can try to do things, even if I am rubbish at them, and still have fun trying.

I was…[Read more]

Graffiti gravitas

The writing is on the wall
It’s been there for a while
In figures ten miles wide
You’d have to be blind
Not to see.

But you walked right on past
Every day
For weeks and weeks
With your eyes looking inward
Patiently focused on the past.
Instead of me.

I could have jumped up and down
Naked, with a chicken on my head.
I could hav…[Read more]

Anyone who says they enjoy smoking is fibbing. The act of rolling a ciggy, or lighting one up and having that first drag, well then yes.

But by the 10th or 20th in a day…. you have a mouth like an ashtray, cough like a wheezy dog, and your clothes and skin smell foul.

It is our god given right to smoke… it isn’t illegal and if we want to…[Read more]

A friend just tried to pay her gas bill on line with them. They took the payment twice and when she tried to sort it out it took her half an hour and the phone call cost her an arm and a leg!

This country is going to the dogs.

No offence toy.

Well, not quite yet it isn’t. But maybe one day. :wink: