“I could wish, when we were recovered, our conduct had been more
distinguished for charity and kindness in remembrance of the past
calamity”
Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year
We take on the roles that we have been given.
We must be helpful. These are dangerous times.
If the law were not upheld, we’d be lost;
there would be no community. It’s cold.
I have a fire. Not many have. Light it
for me; and share the warmth. I find it hard
to strike a match to make a flame, even
to set the tinder in a dusty grate.
My partner used to say that what matters
is how a person lives, what kind they are,
he’d say. He quoted Hamlet and made jokes.
That isn’t my way, after all. What counts
is money at the bank. Those who keep tally
observe such things. The rulers have their checks.
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"The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
"water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
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‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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