Month: May 2022

Death By Laundry – 11th May 2022

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Who wants to watch the world a-tumble?
Turned on by private words now shared
The world, a worthless judge and jury
A cult of celebrity being compared

Wars aren’t felt when kept abroad
Out of sight and out of mind
Every channel, a meaningless opinion
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Rewind.

People are strange; they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Charles Bukowski

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to watch and hear all the birds in our garden each morning.

N.C.O – 10th May 2022

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Those secret deep-state meditations
Held complicit by dollar motivations
Data collection and manipulations
For narrative control operations

What people want, above all else, is not to be happy; they want to devote themselves to something, to give themselves away.

Tim Kreider from We Learn Nothing

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for the mango sauce Amy’s dad made. Even though it’s supposed to be jam, it goes well with yoghurt.

Time Of The Gypsies – 9th May 2022

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I’ll take my shoe and crush you
What will my spirit do without wings?
He takes and he smiles
The tap is left running

A sheep led through mud
The house will be white like milk
The working man gets the turkey
Talking to the turkey

What did he do to my daughter?
He ruined my daughter!
Winged sunny bird, winged sunny bird
Follow my lead, what trouble brought you here?

Special lime for the girl brings a smile
Who will carry such a sack?
Fire is the basis of everything
Do you know how to kiss?

Mother of the forest, mother of the rock
White as milk
Like Richard Gere
A turkey tied to a foot

I can hold my breath
And then the curtain comes down
The turkey makes a run
You’ve got a magnet on your lips

There’s a ghost at work
A mirage, take the case and run
The smoke came out his ears
No money, no faith, you army bastard
I’ll pull out your eyes

He wants to slaughter me and left me hanging
Is there a place for me?
The moonlight smiles and I cannot jump my shadow
And I cannot die

The bells are ringing, that I cannot die
Who are you to hang yourself?
Love will hang us all
Bring me home and tell my story

A crying donkey
Play another song, too old to dance in the park
Dinner is a scene and the night a dream
Burning in bed, a mountain fairy mother

God gave, God took, what can I do?
I am an army bastard
The water spirits swinging fire
Blood risen floating desire

A slap in the face for the seeing
Angelic baptism
The champion is here, the protagonist in a white feather fanfare
Money for the madhouse

How does this hang together?
Your love is not worthy of my daughter
Look upon her beauty, all-white
Trouble is coming, you’ll kiss my feet

A ride initiated, even lost my shoes
Mother save me
For the last time – money or life
Do you want my soul?

A turkey on the table
Damn all you dead and living
I’ll lift up your walls until the rain comes in
Don’t cry, mother

Can you separate the earth from the sky?
Bloodletting to save a life
Exorcise the demons with its power
Where are you hiding?

You should be kissing my feet
The journey is just starting
There are angels and devils in my house
Unsure which is witch

Best enjoyed whilst watching the first thirty minutes of Emir Kusturica’s ‘Time of the Gypsies’

When choosing people to associate with, do not be mesmerised by their reputation or taken in by their surface image they try to project.

Robert Greene

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to give our limes to Auntie Sue when she needs them, asking over the fence.

5th Sept 2023 – Both of the lime trees next to the fence have since died, eaten away inside by some bug. The other lime trees around the garden in various spots are still doing well though.

Space Invaders – 8th May 2022

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Give us a great galactic invader
Intent on total human destruction
Forget past indiscretions and focus
Efforts toward united instruction
Now imagine there was no invader
But we treat each other with that in mind
Remove hunger, poverty, crime and corruption
Everything that has made us unkind
Is it just too much to wish for?
Something that we can never achieve
Put our faith in the love of each other
The one truth that we need to believe

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to offer help to people by picking them up with our car.

Old Enough – 6th May 2022

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It’s a real-life Frogger for you, youngster
The family needs some fish for dinner
A responsible life is your true reward
These are the makings of a winner
This is not an alternate reality
It’s the world in which to survive
Where trust and love trump all fear
Where one learns how to be alive

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that the bananas I bought haven’t gone off and I’ve been able to eat them all. I’m banana-ed out.

The Week That Was – 24th June 1979

Axe It – 5th May 2022

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Dear friends, let me hit you with my left fist
Otherwise, I’ll be forced to hit you with the right
These two faces are chasing the same things
And they’ve already rigged the fight
There’s a third choice never presented
It’s always hidden from view
To take an axe and lop off those fists
Remove the threats that bind you

People who are constantly doing things to make you sick or poor or homeless or dead are conventionally known as ‘enemies’.

Ian Walsh

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to Rich Levine and his music collection that I learned a lot from all those years ago. Reminded of this as I’m listening to Three Mile Pilot.

It Pays – 4th May 2022

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Working hard or hardly working
Was the joke in the office those days
Though the environment is not conducive
It is the one that pays
Laughing aloud ‘How’s the serenity?’
A camaraderie in many ways
Though the environment is not conducive
It is the one that pays

Everything is a symbol, even the most piercing pain. We are dreamers who shout in our sleep. We do not know whether the things afflicting us are the secret beginning of our ulterior happiness or not.

Léon Bloy

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that this week is fairly relaxed at school so I can take the time to take Cap to the vet today.

Visited Last Night – 3rd May 2022

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You were in my dream
But I don’t know who you are
So perfect to hold

Your black and white top
Hugs tight to your chest and waist
Hold this forever

Composite angel
Of everything I wanted
Gone with eyes opened

Touched me deep inside
The girl with no face or name
Visit me again

Nobody ever figures out what life is about, and it doesn’t matter.

Richard Feynman

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for the lady who made my salad last night. It was nice of her to prepare a second bowl for me.

The Week That Was – 17th June 1979

Not Today – 2nd May 2022

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The smiling reaper taps his fingers
Returning the smile is all you can do
Rise from your slumber shouting ‘Not today!’
Send down death, back to the blue
Bounce out of bed, your time is short
Thousands today will be sent away
Take the chances offered to you
You’ve got the gift of another day

It is extremely dangerous, very possibly even disastrous, to assume that because people are in positions of responsibility, they are therefore behaving responsibly.

David McCullough, from The Jonestown Flood

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be back at school and to get back into a new routine.