The best laid plans of mice and mink that skate around thin ice then shrink into the water colours of a painting.

I am blessed be that She took me for better or for worse
Grammarly pipes in with a get off your **** and begin something new,

ah
a sculpture based on lemon curd and not a single word was heard when I realised this was madness.

It's okay
I'm out for the day, which is better than being out for the count, ask Monte Cristo, he'd know.

Books and the looks when you look at the books and wonder which one you should read,

read them all and escape
it's
never too late to learn.

To like what you do
does not mean that
you can do what you like.

There are rules to adhere to.

Which is a shame
when there is no one to blame
but yourself.

Back to the clock, watching
hands playing hopscotch
around the dial,

in a while or some time later,
maybe
I'll make a *** of tea
or maybe
I'll sit and watch the clock

even the choices I make
take some time.

It's probably highly propitious
to think that I might be
a genius
( quickly checks dictionary )
and yes!
that is me.

Unassuming

Shall we be
as we have always been
the great unwashed
the unseen?

The world may change
but we shall have seen her in all of
her glory
or
maybe that is the story we tell ourselves
as erosion bites and the nights last longer.

But we're as lean as lamposts
and as fit as fiddles
except for the  coughing and the
fat that spreads around our middles.

I live with the thought that we are
what we've bought.

I'm not ready to buy the farm just yet.

That old trailer owned by my Dad
had nothing to do with 'Breaking Bad'
don't even think my Dad could cook,

Mum could though
so
you never know.

this arrangement between the trees
and the leaves that leave the trees
endures,
every year, the same