Many of us getting there, Max. So it hit home, here.
Doug
On 12-Jul-05, at 10:28 PM, cooee wrote:
>
> Pain in the Night
>
>
> In the dark bedroom a darker pain
> attaches itself to my hip.
> What have I done
> to deserve this?
>
> Decent quiet-living pensioner,
> I spent all yesterday
> doing good deeds,
> in moderation,
>
> moderately ate, drank and exercised,
> avoided the dangerous exertions of gym.
> As the pain fades,
> so does my resentment.
>
> Only yesterday by her hospital bed
> I heard my wife’s mother say
> ‘I’m used to pain, but this
> from the knee surgery...!
>
> - well, the nurses believe
> in the painkiller
> and they’re quick.
> But the nights are long.’
>
>
> 2pm, Wednesday July 13, 2005
>
> Max Richards
> North Balwyn, Melbourne
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
NOT MUCH
Not much you ever
said you were thinking
of, not much to
say in answer.
Robert Creeley
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