Slow Defeat Who doesn’t want to enjoy the slow defeats within a long life? Let death claim its single victory, while we take a thousand dances under the bright sun of delusion. Each moment another victory against the inevitable. Each tomorrow a new day – apart from once. But is death such a big loss? […]
I’ve always hated flies. Depending on the type of windows you have The top opening ones are the worst. The flies get in but there is no way for them to get out again. One way glass – only one side is solid. This is one sided glass that a fly will bounce off if […]
I never really got to be the best. I spent a lot of time hanging on the coat-tails of giants. At least I was in the same room. I was used to my ideas being overlooked, which is why I started my own venture at the weekends. Most of my work is dealing with people […]
When I told my wife about my writers block she told me I should kill my darlings. I thought she cared about our children more than that. Happy wife,happy life as they say. I just go along with her as it’s so much easier. Halfway through my prison term I realised she was talking about […]
Feeling a bit unwell after a night out. My significant other said : “It wouldn’t surprise me if we caught something from the other night. We don’t get much exposure these days.” “Ah, The diseased populus,” I said, “The pox populi.” It did leave me wondering what century I was born in. VOX POPS and […]
Young and Dumb As a youngster I lived in a street of terraced houses. We used to go the end of the block and throw a tennis ball at the gable end of the last house. The game was to get the ball to hit the wall and the ground at the same time. […]
I wondered how many of us are in thrall to our thoughts. Scared of them, scared of their power. How they wrap up in our emotions and give them powerful form. I thought I would go into a little more detail, of how thought became my slave and I the master. Then I thought I […]
Before all this nonsense started. All the devices,all the apps, all of all of the new stuff and more stuff again. I stop and think of generations older than mine, who got to live most of their lives without the stuff. I still hear their dead voices. “We made our own entertainment in those days.” […]
I have a poor memory,so I make lots of notes. I use a carrier pigeon to deliver my notes. I don’t have anyone to send the note to, so the pigeon just comes back to me. I usually forget what’s on the note,so it’s always a nice surprise. Like Christmas everyday. I’m just sending […]
I’m only asking as I just discovered a half inch square piece of cheese. The last time I ate cheese was last Sunday. Since then I must have seen several hundred people. I was wearing pants everyday but one. Not one single person mentioned the cheese in my hair. Fear of offence I’m not […]
