The farce continues. The crime minister and his puppet master are still trying to convince us that they have the best interests of the country at heart while proposing a reduction in employment rights and offering the NHS on the alter of an American trade deal. This is how desperate and bankrupt their neoliberal philosophy is.
In the midst of this posturing I attended the anti-Brexit march last Saturday. It was heart warming to see so many people protesting against the elite.
I was stood in Marjons quad the other day watching a magpie when this came into my head.
The radiation hurtled out of the sun,
flew
fast across space, but still took
seven
whole minutes
to
touch the atmosphere,
bounce
off the magpie in the quad
and
into the centre of my eye.
I
was stood stock still,
thinking
of the flood of light
that
rains down on us every day.
Meanwhile
the magpie,
having
made her point, flew away.
Sometimes physics is just cosmic. I was stood there just thinking of the great spaces between the planets - let alone the stars. God is all around us, beauty is everywhere.
Here's a revision. The previous version was newly minted and I when I looked at it again I saw how it could be improved.
I dreamt you last night
placed
us both in fragments
of
time and songs
then
woke in the darkness
and
strove to recall
the
poem I was writing
sat
on the hillside
in
the rain
not
getting wet
On Wednesday I saw Boo Hewerdine in Ashburton. He was excellent as always.
Boo has a new album out and it's well worth a listen.
Here he is singing Muddy Water.