O Chris, this is sad and painful to read.
Hoping this bad time for you passes quickly.
Max
Quoting Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>:
> On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 19:11 +1100, Alison Croggon wrote:
> > Max, I have a real prejudice against centred poetry. At least, I can
> > think of one time when I used it; and I think it looks amateurish.
>
> This is what I felt also about some of that bush slam stuff. When I was
> caring for my mother before she passed away one of the garden club
> members use to visit and read her the latest poem she had written. I
> went to my computer and hid out of sight but she made sure she read
> loudly enough that I could here.
>
> After that, I have become much softer and much more tolerant of amateur
> poets. Although I try to hide as much as I can that I am an
> internationally published poet and artist, wanting more to be unknown,
> the bush telegraph says otherwise. The very fact that people value
> poetry enough to take it up as a hobby... what does this say? This woman
> did not want my approval. All she wanted to say was that she valued
> poetry and life. And it gave my mother some reprieve from her last
> crippling wheel chair bound painful months. And at the end all I could
> do was hold her hand while a distressed painful voice from somewhere
> else pleaded; help me, help me, help me. Her kidneys had shut down. Her
> pad was dry. The Australian health bureaucracy made sure my mother could
> not have access to morphine when she needed it most. What a cruel and
> awful world we live in. And some still think computers and digital is
> progress!
>
> So, after this, I guess I need to rethink. My doctor is on holidays. I
> have run out of opiate pain relief because some dead brain ignorant
> replacement doctor thinks I don't need it! I want to kill myself.
>
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