We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage / And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, / We Poets of the proud old lineage / Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ... (James Elroy Flecker)

21.3.26

Coping with the World

 

Listening to the thin squeak 

of my radio turned low

playing non-stop jazz 

all day and night, but not

to disturb the neighbours … 

I fill my dark with

other people’s dreams.

I read, too – stories that all 

end happily, they are all alike. 

Afterwards, I forget them.



4 comments:

  1. Same!! Between doomscrolling and health scares, am listening to k-pop and watching nonsensical netflix - all promptly forgotten.

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    1. And with all that, we are the fortunate few (in world terms).

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    2. Yes, fortunate - definitely. Though the war is having an impact here already with cooking gas (LPG) is short supply. A lot of small restaurants have had to close temporarily. We wait and watch. And hope.

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    3. Ah yes. Here, we are worried about how soon we'll be running out of petrol for our cars, and the price is going up already.

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