Goodness me, if I only knew what 'networking' meant...I could be networking right now. Gosh.

I just went to Coles and bought a Guinness, a packet of cigarettes, and an organic roast chicken ...all three, equally, to show that I care about the world.

it's somewhat like the whole society is geared into some 'spin cycle' to extract money from people for just being normal people...and that is the whole ethic...dieting, exercise, psychology, veganism, even meditation, ...its all just 'pay me and I will help you not to be normal'...but you will have to come back, every week, to make sure 'normal' doesn't take hold again...

in my twenties and thirties I was a normally looking gaunt and hungry young man and this appealed to a cohort of women, and that was great. At the same time, that was normal.I didn't have to try to look gaunt and hungry. I didn't think I could live through my forties and fifties pretending to be 20 so I didn't, and so I grew in weight, and it suits me to be 6ft tall and 100 kilos. I don't like it, I don't dislike it, but I am not about to somehow think that I am doing anything wrong in this matter. I don't exercise much because I don't need to.Why would you do that if you don't need to? What did you miss out on? Whatever you missed out on in the past, darlin, its not here now. Doesn't any one teach kids reality any more?

in my twenties and thirties I was a normally looking gaunt and hungry young man and this appealed to a cohort of women, and that was great. At the same time, that was normal.I didn't have to try to look gaunt and hungry. I didn't think I could live through my forties and fifties pretending to be 20 so I didn't, and so I grew in weight, and it suits me to be 6ft tall and 100 kilos. I don't like it, I don't dislike it, but I am not about to somehow think that I am doing anything wrong in this matter. I don't exercise much because I don't need to.Why would you do that if you don't need to? What did you miss out on?

poem for My Dad

Poem for My Dad

And as for Him

He was light and he was shade

And in some image we were made

And then we set upon

Our own parade

People came and people went

And in it all

The life was spent

In general goodness all abide

and indeed I miss him

by my side.

Life Poem, for my mother, 4 March 2017

Poem:

We were alone

and then we met

and all that should

said to beget

and beget we did

and made a clan

to twist and tie

the rubber band

and in our love

we did find joy

in each and every girl and boy

and from then on

they grew themselves

some were giants

and some were elves

and all were

equally just themselves

and so to bed

to think ahead

half with the living

half with the dead

and all join in

to this odd circus

whose rhymes and reasons

decide the purpose.