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Not going gentle
Do I really
want to spend the
declining years
of my old age
in learning all
there is to know
about collecting
stamps?
Hoarders
I remember
when I was young
reading about
two brothers,
hoarders, who
filled their house
with newspapers,
traversed by tunnels,
which one day
collapsed and
killed them.
In old age
our minds are
filled with the
hoarded memories
of a lifetime,
ready to crush
our spirit
with their weight
as we tunnel through.
Remembrance of…
At my age
every day
of the year
is an anniversary
of something
or other, but
mostly I no longer
remember of what.
Just as well,
in many cases,
sad loss in others,
but I don’t
get to decide
which will come
back to me
with the sound
of wind in the
chimney, the taste
of a cake, the smell
of wood smoke,
the light of
a full moon,
the touch of silk.
Window on wind
A windy day
blows birds into
the garden to
swoop, glide and
play, then blows
them out again.
Rock-a-bye baby
Let me get
this straight,
some people
think that telling
their baby that
while they are
asleep their cradle
will crash to the
ground when a
bough breaks
is a way of
getting them
to sleep?
The old schoolyard
If we knew why,
and how, a school
classroom, full of
students, all
from the same town, all
exposed to
the same
experiences,
the same
information,
the same
culture and
society,
can turn out,
fifty years on,
to be Right and
Left, Believer and
Atheist, nice and
not so nice,
we could
understand why
the world is in
such a mess.
Cabbages and kings
Once we talked to
friends of their
children, their
houses, their
careers, their
plans and dreams;
of the books
they were writing,
films they had seen,
art they had created,
gardens they had grown.
Now we talk to
friends of their
illnesses, their
operations, their
diseases, their
pills and potions
and prognoses,
of who has died
and who will die
soon.
Churn
As you move
around the world,
in youth and
middle age,
new friends come
and keep coming.
When you age
and stop moving,
old friends go.
In a crowded theatre
Donald Trump
is the end
result of
confusing
quantity of
free speech
with quality
of free speech
Religion is…
Mad solutions to
invented problems
to please an
imaginary being and
avoid non-existent
punishments.
