I feel the ‘there’ & ‘then’ of it, Millicent. How that can hurt (& maybe heal?)..
Doug
> On Aug 3, 2018, at 5:43 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> yup that blanket of awful is up my street (actually road cul de saccing)
>
>
> On 03/08/2018 11:31, Bill Wootton wrote:
>> The blanket of good and awful. Very good I think, M.
>>
>> B
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 8:14 pm, Millicent Borges Accardi <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Foreign to your Forthright Manner
>>>
>>> Theworld spins and dusts
>>> itselfinto a solid heart without
>>> end.You are there and then
>>> youare then, and I suppose it
>>> istemporary but then three years go
>>> byand it is not. It is a temporary
>>> statewhich turns permanent
>>> withoutmutual agreement
>>> orwarning or an alarm.
>>> And,you are there, living it in,
>>> arrhythmia.Deep in the trenches
>>> ofemergency, canceling
>>> whateveryou need to,
>>> bloodflows into a temporary
>>> solutionthat lasts
>>> forever.When wishes are true
>>> andyou need them to be false,
>>> loveis what you most wish for.
>>> Transplant. Life is what happens
>>> whenyou forget, but then you
>>> realizethat it is so much worse
>>> whenyou remember, so you
>>> shoveall of the past under
>>> andunder until you try to smother
>>> itall, the blanket of good and awful.
>>> Itis what happens when you
>>> needto live.
>>>
>>>
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I’ve got it
Too.
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