Snakes alive
If you make a garden snake proof, then, when a snake does get in it can\’t get out again. If you make your brain to resist mad ideas, then when the madness does get in, it will stay there forever.
poetry
Rescue me
I rescue the Daddy-Long-Leg spiders that hide in the corners of my shower. Delicately, so carefully, their fragile legs easily break. I rescue the memories in my mind, also fragile, very breakable, delicately, so carefully, exposing them to light of day.
But yesterday\’s gone
In some parallel universe my university career began sixty years ago. In the real world it was only just the day before yesterday.
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Break a leg
In olden days, when injured, it was from sport, or bicycles, or wrestling rams, or climbing trees; nowadays just turning over in bed will do.
Pressure point
Comes a time in everyone’s life when the most thrilling event of a week is not a party or a present or promotion or lottery win, but just a low blood pressure reading for once.
But that was yesterday
Once upon a time I was much more than the sum of my ailments and side effects of medicines, but now I have no time left for anything else.
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Boogey Man
Anxiety is a monster hiding around every corner, under every bed, in every unopened cupboard, on sunny days and dark nights, in Winter and Spring, in happy memories and sad memories, and I can never say “Boo Monster”.
Catch me if you can
Anxiety will cunningly disguise itself with the symptoms of heart disease and the cancers playing hide and seek with your mind.
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4 am
It would be good, would it not, to live in moments, completely, and not try to anticipate and retrospect every last heartbeat each night