Word has it that President George W. Bush will take up arms against Spain on your behalf, sweet P (and, just incidentally, that oil has been found under your friend's loo).
Omniattack with love
---- Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> SPAINED -ALBUÑOL
>
> rented a place
> in Spain -Albuñol
> from a friend
> of a friend
> hard to find
> high up a cliff
> from town on foot
> or down a cliff on foot
> from a car park
> fifty feet above
> forty-sixty degree slope
> manageable just
> when totally dry
> not when rained
> slipped and tripped
> fell every time
> mountain goat
> might have made it
> get to town through
> narrow alley maybe
> eighteen inches wide
> down a vertical ladder
> holding so tight
> more steep paths
>
> inside dwelling
> door to bathroom -kitchen
> four foot six high - narrow
> down steps -dropping
> all doors- under five foot eight
> some ceilings under six feet
> me a man- six foot plus
> stair steps between
> ten and fourteen inch risers
> bath three foot long
> walled tight wedged
> shower temperamental scalded
> water heater intermittent
> on loo knees nudged
> a cold tiled wall
>
> outside- mountains
> resembled slag heaps
> fields- vast seas
> of polytunnels
> blasted disaster zone
> beaches- black all gritty
> plastic littered festooned
> wild life thin sparse
> feral cats plentiful
> neighbour- fed fifteen
> that peed -shat freely
> adorning decorating paths
> local dogs- savage
> leaded caged- fenced
> snarling threatened
>
> november
> our windows-unglazed
> just shuttered
> also- other problems
> but after the week
> we escaped
> somewhat scarred
> certainly shaken
>
>
> pmcmanus
> Spain -Albuñol
> n957
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