I thought they were fireworks
but
they were just police cars
with flashing lights
and sirens,
not the sirens
I'd have chosen
not the ones
in the southern seas

hard to please
that's me.

bedtime
en Angleterre
so glad
that She's there
beside me.

Everything went in the cup
and surely it would have runneth over
if only I'd remembered to put the water in.

Life's a bit similar to a board game,
at times we get bored with it
but play it just the same.

She,
the best half of me
gave me a gift when I got home which is
a place where the sun always shines,

unexpected,
the loveliest things always are
and are better by far for that.

Life's like that too
we never know when or with who
we'll be happy
until we find the one
or the one finds us
until then
we're only living.

In the most unlikely of places
in weather-beaten faces
in old battered leather suitcases
and sometimes we don't have to look
sometimes it's just there,
inside
waiting for us to realise
and to accept it.

Today is the first day of the rest of it
so
I am preparing myself to make the best of it.

Difficult when you're cynical but not impossible.

Let the night be gone
and so it was,
I switched the light on
and there I am
the man I was
and because it's Monday
I'll have some cream in my coffee.

If only the day could be microwaved
and I could do
eight hours of work in seven minutes
at four hundred watts, but
it can't.

see!
technology is not that advanced.

That was us then
using the pen
accusing the world.

Look at us now,
nib less and clawless
and then there's
lNibbles the cat that
can't catch a mouse.

Because we're tired?
yes
put it down to tiredness.

Sunday and I worked like a Trojan
not the registered trademark one
but a man from Troy,
oh
boy do I have to explain everything?

I see no ships as She slips into the bath.

on the perimeter I shall swim with her
we shall laugh and dive into where
it all began.

Once again I woke
though
not sure if I'm awake,
my head aches
my legs ache
She says
take a cure-all
by that
She means
Panadol,

I take a minute to think
did I drink last night?
no!
that's right,
I was working til ten
got home,
bellyflopped onto the bed
dead to the world.

..and more of the same today.

..but not all doom and gloom
I left some room to swing the cat
( not a euphemism )

They opened me up to take a look and to understand what made me tick, I saw it all on the cameras and boy did it make me feel sick, they prodded and poked and one of them joked, he looks like a slab of pork, I looked at him with his triple chin and thought, Mister, you should talk, you look like a field full of pork.

But they got me fixed and sent me on my way
back to the battle and into the fray.