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1. People who have been tagged are strongly encouraged to write the answers on their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question ( Read more... )

 I certainly don't expect you to be responsible. Caring is enough.  

 There's nothing that can be done. Whatever you think, however much you care, it's not going to make a ha'p'orth of difference. You can worry and care and love until you eat your own liver and you're still sat in your own armchair while, a thousand (or 3 or 5 or 7)  miles away the world goes to hell in a handcart.  You, all those miles away, end up ( Read more... )

Happiness is not something I expect in life but that doesn't mean that I'm unhappy.  Unhappiness is not just the opposite of happiness it is the antithesis. Between the thesis and the antithesis is the synthesis. I do my best to exist somewhere around there. When I'm asked how I am my usual answer is that I'm fine. I am fine; content. I expect ( Read more... )

 Most of the time I have no idea what to say.

I think that mostly it's safer to say nothing.

And then I get an urge to scream really fucking loudly.

So I bite my tongue and shut the fuck right up.

 
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She cried all night
And drank Martini
I turned my camera on so she could see me
Her daylight drained away
as mine was dawning
I'm glad to say
I made her smile
by morning.

 This picture was taken at St Peter's Church at Monkwearmouth in Sunderland in 1963.
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I think I had a bad attack of teenage angst tonight. At 2.30 a.m. I was reading Enid Blyton and eating curry. It's 5 now and I'm writing poetry ( Read more... )