watching
Goodbye Christopher Robin he cringedhe stopped the film backtracked it and he didnt
play it again until he had his old weathered clipboard on his lap hes
had it longer than he had his wife she thought he was nuts for taking it out of the trash at a secure
military facility he wasnt going to
allow the poignant quote to escape him then
with the clipboard on his lap and a pen in hand he ran the film again stopping it
as portions of the quote unfurled he never took shorthand until he had it in its entirety
he
texted it to his girlfriendhis daughters his two closest friends but because he sent it at three in the
morning he didnt expect responses then he anticipated their thoughts later that
morning
however unanimously they had nothing
to say
someone
else might have been galled to hear nothing back
but
he was inured to being ignored
that
they got the quote was all that was important to him
he
didntwhere once upon a time he did take
offence at their silence
busy
busybusy busybees
he
recognised it as an ailment of the timetheir time time prioritised to death spontaneity apparently left to those who had nothing
better to dodid he really have nothing better to do? no he
was grounded to spontaneity the unexpected and he was also healthy one has
to be healthy to be at the roiling edge of the here and nowthe hear and now he was
the antiwar marcher peace marcher politics freak unwilling to stand down
interrupting people at the very moment he disagreed with them sharply he apologised for his apparent rudeness
yet explained he wasnt waiting a single moment for the poison of their wordsthe
violence in the words to hang in the air unchallenged unrefuted When youre snakebit you dont wait for the snake
to crawl off before you seek remedy that
never went over well but he didnt mean it
to go over well he met bombastic with
bombastic and facts he relished the Old Testaments eye for an eye tooth for a tooth it was old hat to himhed been removed more times
than he bothered to count from rahrah gatherings for challenging the talking
heads which was okay the air was foetid by the exhale of the braying
asses
A
person should do the things a person loves with the people the person loves
because you never know what happens next
2056, Sunday, 15 7.
18
1119, Sunday,
22 7. 18
Clayhill Funny How
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h5Fbv2Ku4w
