Some sounds I made can be heard here.
And some moving pictures, already posted before, are assembled here.
7 August 2017
BIRTHDAY
Born at midnight on this date long long ago in some distant galaxy.
6 August 2017
MORE AUTO AND BIO
Another short update to the autobio. I'm just going to keep adding to it in small chunks like this rather than wait until I've got many more pages.
Painting in T's kitchen
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31 July 2017
AUTOBIO UPDATE
Have added part 25 to the autobio and also altered parts 21-22. There's so much editing to do and so much digging into the pile of old diaries, photos etc. that I can only proceed at snail pace and in short installments.
One of the difficulties is to decide how confessional to be and I'm hopeless at making up my mind about this. How to be a censor/editor of one's own life? Any advice from you writers out there?
There are links to each installment on the starting page so you can click on wherever you left off, if you've been there before:
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21 July 2017
I'm working slowly on updating the autobio. But meanwhile, nuggets of poem-like things suddenly pop into my head. I might or might not illustrate them. Here's the latest.
HEART BRAKE
That one
wears his heart on his heart
like a badge.
It says
THIS IS NOT A HEART.
But if you believe it
and turn away
the badge stabs
its sword
into his heart
and he cries.
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19 July 2017
STOLEN FLOWERS
You gotta love a man
who brings you flowers
little white ones
snipped from a neighbour's hedge
with nail scissors
he carries for this purpose.
A passing taxi driver
saw him doing it
and he was ashamed.
You gotta love a man
like that.
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18 July 2017
INTERNET CRASH
Internet connection went down for nearly 48 hours and it was like having a limb cut off.
No it wasn't. That's a wild and foolish exaggeration. It was a damned nuisance and of course I assumed it was all my fault, my computer's fault, and everything was going to crash. Moreover there was spectacular thunder and lightning last night.
So I backed up everything to my external hard drive, just in case apocalypse was at hand. Hard drives survive apocalypses, right?
Back to normal now.
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16 July 2017
HELLO
A non-sequitur occurred to me. Here it is, for want of something more relevant.
INS and OUTS
When couples break up
it's often because of an in
or a whole list of ins
for example:
Infidelity
Inequality
Inattention
Insensitivity
Incomprehension
Inflexibility
Intolerance
Insecurity
In-laws
And when they look for a new love
they simply delete the ins
so their wish list
looks like this:
Fidelity
Equality
Attention
Sensitivity
Comprehension
Flexibility
Tolerance
Security
Optional in-laws
INS and OUTS
When couples break up
it's often because of an in
or a whole list of ins
for example:
Infidelity
Inequality
Inattention
Insensitivity
Incomprehension
Inflexibility
Intolerance
Insecurity
In-laws
And when they look for a new love
they simply delete the ins
so their wish list
looks like this:
Fidelity
Equality
Attention
Sensitivity
Comprehension
Flexibility
Tolerance
Security
Optional in-laws
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15 July 2017
MORE POETS
On Thursday night upstairs at the City Pride pub Katy Evans-Bush and friends celebrated the launch of her truly marvellous poetry pamphlet Broken Cities. She is one of the winners of this year's Poetry Business competition and Astrid Alben and John Clegg joined her to read from their own new work.
I was happy to be there and to meet a few faces I'd only seen on Facebook. Unfortunately the roar of trains outside the pub window blurred my already dodgy hearing and I had put the aids away because wearing them makes the world invade my head like Genghis Khan's army.
Never mind - I read the poems live on the page and the poets' voice spoke to me.
And I took some photos.
Katy Evans-Bush
John Clegg
Astrid Alben
Tom Deveson in foreground..Don't know the others' names.
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12 July 2017
POETS AT PHOENICIA
Ramshackle, unpretentious, seriously attentive ambiance and audience at the legendary Torriano Meeting House on 9th July. Grateful to have been theret to hear my friends and colleagues, excellent poets Dick Jones and Dave Bonta, reading from their respective books: Ice Mountain by Dave Bonta and Ancient Lights by Dick Jones.
Their publisher is Phoenicia, created, animated and independently run by my good friends writer-artist Beth Adams and photographer Jonathan Sa'adah from their studio in Montreal.
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6 July 2017
PAST LIFE AND PLANT LIFE
Today at a local garden centre, surrounded with beautifully chattering plant life, a tiny moon-coloured cactus type of thing humbly asked for my attention. It was named, the label said, Echevaria which sounds Paraguayan and reminds me of Mexico and I love the pale moon colour and it was only £3.99 and weighs almost nothing so I took it home. I can only offer it a kitchen windowsill but I think it will be happy.
I'm taking up my online autobiography again after a very long hiatus and hope to have a least another chapter up very soon. If anyone wants to browse previous installments of The Burial of Mickey Mouse, they're here.
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01 July 2017
BACK TO FRONT
Writing backwards is not as easy at it looks.
Neither is the fact that you only ever see yourself backwards.
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