76 Candles
I remember, as a child, how I would have to wait years, many years it seemed, for the day of my next birthday. Now each new one arrives only a month or so apart and I would rather they slowed down again.
We’re all individuals
Cabbage White butterflies seem boring to me. All exactly the same in their looks and behaviour. But I guess they don’t seem like that to each other.
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3 am
Monsters in the cupboard? Or monsters under the bed? No, the monsters in my body set off the night fears now.
Great eggspectations
Every day, somewhere in the world, billions of birds sit on their nests, content and confident about the eggs that they cherish.
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Posterity
Alzheimer, Addison, Parkinson, I’d hate to be remembered as the name of a horrible disease. Though it might be better than not to be remembered for anything.
Chain of command
Religion is not just the following of imaginary beings but the following of people who are following the people who claim to know what an imaginary being will want.
Decay rate
Things fall apart the centre will not hold. Nor will the stomach, lungs brain, feet, liver back, kidneys, skin, or any other of my organs.
1957, 1959, 1964
Three old diaries sit on my desk, three pale red, red and light brown books small enough to fit in the palm of my hand, so small little could be recorded, like three bubbles of the gas that, stuck in ice cores, tells us of the air long ago, but nothing else. It was a