CONTACT HISTORY FRENDZ YE VAULT
(copyright remains with the author's remains...)
SUMMER - haha - '07.
And here we is again, after a wee bitty of a lapse, with a snippet or twain - how is it for you?
Feechered are extracts from recent perblications by assorted humans, being representative of local endeavours...
Hednod Lakskin (Editor)
FROM "BREAD AND OINTMENT" by Andy Mullis
LOOKING FOR NOBODY
Taut in the flat with yellowing posters,
Frayed nets, shelves judged dusty by winter sun
And, somehow, polyfilla'd hall walls,
Sits Sarah on her twelfth cigarette,
Almost ready to remove herself into town
To fetch the Dove, the beans, the fish fingers,
The middle-range bog-roll and the Impulse.
It is a familiar weekend,
But notice she courts a glance as she goes.
Imagine her mind games: quirkily pretty,
Single income no kids, looking for nobody.
See? Thirty-something-legal-secretary,
Quarter of a social life, dumped eight years ago,
A child who never saw the light of day,
Friends who've trickled slowly through her fingers.
This evening, after playing out the funeral again,
With its belated appreciation and remorse,
She oversteps the mark. After the pills,
Fear and guilt peck cynically at her girlish soul
Until oblivion shrouds any hint of relief.
Mum sounds the alarm after a week.
Responsively, the police hammer at the door.
Quietly, Sarah points out her achievement from the hall floor.
FROM THE ABOVE:
JUST DREAMING
I知 dreaming of a white Christmas,
Isn稚 that what I知 supposed to do?
Look forward to Spring, whilst listening to Bing
And hope that it will become true.
I知 dreaming of wealth & riches
And a family I could call "mine".
A child and a house, a car and a spouse,
A general feeling of "fine".
I知 dreaming of peace and joy for all,
I was taught to do that at school.
An end to all war, to give the poor more
And try to suffer gladly any fool.
I知 dreaming of living forever,
Though I know I知 asking too much.
Don稚 knock me for trying, I知 not keen on dying,
I just want to get further (a touch).
I知 dreaming still and I won稚 give up
Until some of my dreams have come true.
But, for the time being, I wouldn稚 mind seeing
Some of them happening to you.