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  • Damn spot

    Damn spot

    to the theatre….where I and my learned friend saw King Charles III amid grey heads and rustling sweetie packets. What a brilliant play, truly fabulous. I have always loved Robert Powell since his Jesus of Nazerath days (he can not blink for an unfeasibly long time you know, a rare gift) and tbh that was the…

  • Live-in vacancy

    Live-in vacancy

    Originally posted on Stitch This: Oh octopus, do you mind if I ask How well do you manage to multi task? With tentacles eight I bet you are great A skill in which you should bask I need a few of you helping me One for the cleaning and one to make tea One for…

  • Distance

    Distance

    It’s weird. I just reviewed the year to June 2015 As posted by me on Facebook. I have it printed in one of those book compilations that are advertised on Facebook ever now and  again.  It looks like so much fun. It looks like I’m having a blast the whole time. It makes me question…

  • If. Or, Pollie writes a poem

    If. Or, Pollie writes a poem

    A blank page is an opportunity. It beckons But I stall. I’m shy, uncertain, What if this is all? All I can produce. All I can get down. Small and stuttered, Slurred and slowed, I’m starting to slow down. What if I never find my voice What if it’s gone from me? Stealing into the…

  • Shake it off

    Shake it off

    You may know by now that I won the lottery of life back in 2007 when I was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s. Now, most of the time I choose to willfully ignore it. This is not bravery or inspirational behavior, I’m sorry to say. Rather, it is sheer blind ignorance, conscious ignorance, intended ignorance…